26 Apr Alice Walker’s Journals Have Been Collected in Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
Salamishah Tillet, author of “In Search of The Color Purple,” considers the iconic writer's creative journey in Walker's latest work edited by Valerie Boyd....
Salamishah Tillet, author of “In Search of The Color Purple,” considers the iconic writer's creative journey in Walker's latest work edited by Valerie Boyd....
Six months before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin was arrested for defying Jim Crow on a city bus. More than 60 years later, Colvin's arrest record has finally been expunged....
The Maya Angelou design is the first quarter in the "American Women Quarters Program," a four-year program that will include coins featuring prominent women in U.S. history....
Harriet Tubman, Moses of Black America and freedom fighter, immortalized in a new nine-foot statue at Philadelphia's City Hall. ...
In case you're stuck on what to get the kids for the holidays, consider Nkechi Taifa's children's books that affirm young Black lives. ...
Marita Golden highlights "Speaking of Summer" a thrilling novel by Kalisha Buckhanon ...
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. ...
From New Jersey to Mississippi, Charlotte Van Horn never considered life outside of the U.S. Now she leads Black Expats in Panama, offering tours and resettlement support to Black folks dreaming of life beyond the border....
Scholar and race equity titan Lani Guinier, the first Black woman tenured at Harvard Law School, will be remembered as a visionary whose theories will be studied and practiced far into the future....
A virtual conversation exploring Black women authors, publishers, booksellers, book clubbers and Black women readers. We unerase them with page turning affirmations....