Article Category: International Women’s Day
Writing Our Story; Righting Our History
Authors, Activists, Artists Speak! History is not only what we inherit. It is what we choose to remember, to record, and to pass forward. For Black women, storytelling has always been an act of preservation and resistance—a way of holding onto truth when the official record refused to.
Voices of Protest: We Won’t Be Silenced!
Through the ages, Black women have been told to quiet down; to shut their mouths or soften their tone. And an equally long and unbroken tradition has reigned: Black women refusing to be silenced.
Black Music: The Sound of Freedom
From the spirituals flowed melodies for the soul. It transitioned to a syncopation, improv of early folk music evolving into blues, jazz, gospel, swing, R&B and Hip-Hop.
Octavia E. Butler, Mother of Afrofuturism Envisions the Blueprint for Change
Octavia Butler’s science fiction works gave her the chance to comment on every aspect of humanity.
Black Women and the March on Washington — They Never Missed A Beat
The first Black woman Supreme Court Justice has been officially sworn in. Harvard-trained, Florida-native, Associate Justice Brown Jackson is the first Supreme Court Justice with experience as a public defender.
