09 Apr Breonna Remembered
One year after Breonna Taylor's senseless murder, poet Bernadine "Dine" Watson pays tribute across space, time and sameness. ...
Just Saying
04 Oct We Are Black Women
The term “WOC” negates racial identity in the service of racial unity and it obscures specific barriers facing Black women. It blends multiethnicities into a recipe of erasure. ...
07 Jun The House That Transwomen Built
The voices of Black and Brown transwomen are often lost in history. This month, we honor their contributions and center them in the movements they created. ...
08 Jun Juneteenth Reparations
Rosemari Mealy’s exquisite poem takes us on an enduring, emotional journey to the post-emancipation period now known as Juneteenth....
30 Apr Fast Tracking Affordable Homeownership
Black women are the highest educated U.S. demographic, but degrees are not closing the racial homeownership and wealth gap....
21 Apr The Power of Black Women’s Entrepreneurship
Rebuilding hope, justice, equity and equality in the midst of the pandemic and a new political, racial and social justice era. ...
28 Mar The Power Of The Sister Vote
The stunning upset in Georgia was met with the swift enactment of voter restrictions that mirror the Jim Crow era. But, Black women on the ground are fighting back, confident they won’t be stopped....
08 Jan Sisters-in-Service: The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs 125-Year Legacy
Over a century before Black women sent one of their own to the Vice Presidency, their foremothers gathered in numbers before unseen to harness their collective power and fight for the rights of all. ...
07 Jun Ma Rainey
“She was a person of the folks,” said poet and literary critic Sterling Brown who sheds love and light in this poem simply titled Ma Rainey....
18 Feb Movement Song
Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roof / as the maker of legends / nor as a trap...