Article Category: Black Women

  • 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.

    March 28, 2021
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    8 minute read

  • A Radically Imagined Black Future

    The Dance Mission Theater of San Francisco hosted a showcase that reckons with the 30 years between Rodney King and Breonna Taylor.

    March 22, 2021
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    1 minute read

  • One Million Black Women

    Goldman Sachs is committing $10 billion dollars in direct investment capital to address the racial and gender biases that Black women face.

    March 11, 2021
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    1 minute read

  • Movement Song

    Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roof / as the maker of legends / nor as a trap

    February 18, 2021
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    2 minute read

  • Lucile Bluford – Recording History and Making It

    Lucile Bluford made her mark as a journalist and opponent of segregation in the education system. Now she is immortalized as a branch of the Kansas City Public Library.

    February 16, 2021
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    10 minute read

  • Rosa Parks is More Than a Fairy Tale

    The folk and lore of Rosa Parks does little to complete the picture of the dynamic, skilled and purposeful Civil Rights activist that she was.

    February 4, 2021
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    3 minute read

  • Say Her Name: Dr. Susan Moore

    In what became a dying declaration Dr. Susan Moore warned, “I put forth and I maintain: If I was White, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”

    December 29, 2020
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    5 minute read