18 Dec Civil Rights Student Organizer to be Honored on U.S. Capitol
At 16, Barbara Rose Johns led a student strike and with support filed the largest and only student initiated case consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education....
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30 Nov How a Brooklyn Black Sisterhood Became National Power Brokers
“Black women decide elections. We can decide we are going to elect Black women up and down the ballot.”...
02 May The Data Don’t Lie
Visit The Atlantic's COVID-19 Tracking Project to see daily updates and trends on the global COVID-19 pandemic. ...
14 Oct Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women
Megan Thee Stallion tackles the misogyny, gender-based violence, the failures of policing, and why protecting Black women should never be controversial. ...
25 Sep Millennials, the Service Industry, & Spreading COVID-19
Millennials aren’t partying during the pandemic...
25 Sep Family Incarceration and Black Women’s Health
Balancing the emotional, physical, and mental care of incarcerated family can be especially taxing for Black women ...
02 Aug Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free
The New Yorker's Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor unpacks the legacy of Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective....
30 Jun NASA honors “Hidden Figure” Mary Jackson
"Hidden Figure" and NASA's first Black woman engineer will now be the namesake of NASA's Washington, D.C. headquarters. ...
15 Jun Do Black Women’s Lives Matter?
Breonna Taylor, Tanisha Anderson and Atatiana Jefferson - three unarmed Black women killed by police. But, none of their deaths sparked outrage comparable to the police killings of Black men. ...
10 Nov The Color of Pride
Amber Hikes boldly led the charge to bring a home to Black and brown queer people in the Rainbow Flag. ...