25 Sep Millennials, the Service Industry, & Spreading COVID-19
Millennials aren’t partying during the pandemic...
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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 ...
13 Sep Ahead of the Majority
In 1965, Patsy Mink became the first woman of color elected to Congress. Check out the documentary honoring her life's crusade against injustice. ...
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....
28 Sep Unbossed and Unbought
Almost 50 years ago, the fierce champion for change Shirley Chisholm set to be the first Black president of the United States. Take a look at her historic campaign....
05 Aug To The Front: Black Women and The Vote
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, The AFRO Newspaper released a special edition celebrating Black women suffragists from the Nation's Capital. ...
05 Aug They Were Her Property
This ground-breaking investigation gives lie to the notion of the fragile, defenseless White mistress, withering under the boot of antebellum patriarchy and slavery....
23 Dec The Vitality of Convention Culture
The history behind Black-led convention culture was kept alive through oral storytelling. This new collection of essays brings to light the missing link between organizing and movement politics. ...
29 Jun The Burden of Remembrance
What becomes of the children born from the past? Rochelle Riley's "The Burden" seeks to answer this question for descendants of the enslaved. ...
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. ...