In honor of Financial Literacy Month, we’re taking a moment to spotlight the women who changed the game when it comes to money, power, and ownership. These three women did more than break barriers in banking. They created new pathways forward.
Every year, Tax Day arrives with a familiar rhythm. Receipts are gathered. Returns are filed. Refunds are calculated and, for some, anticipated with relief. It is a moment that invites people to measure what they owe and what they might get back.
Authors, Activists, Artists Speak! History is not only what we inherit. It is what we choose to remember, to record, and to pass forward. For Black women, storytelling has always been an act of preservation and resistance—a way of holding onto truth when the official record refused to.
On the same night Michelle Obama and Kendrick Lamar were celebrated at the 2026 NAACP Image Awards, a reporter for Word In Black quietly made history of her own. Anissa Durham won the inaugural Outstanding Literary Work – Journalism award for “On Borrowed Time."
Who today has ever heard of Rose Meta Morgan? If, thanks to groundbreaking work by Stanley Nelson and A’Lelia Bundles, many are aware of the triumphant, if brief, lives of Madam Walker and her daughter, no biographer has come forward for their successor in the sphere of Black beauty.
By Tracy Chiles McGhee Anniversaries like America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence reveal not only what is celebrated, but what is omitted and whose stories are positioned as central to the national memory. For example, out of the 24 titles included in the National Endowment of the Arts America…
To tell the truth about how the movement endured, we have to listen for the voices history often lowered. Even among the women we do remember, their leadership is often mis-framed.
Originally published on March 28, 2024 Claudette Colvin passed away on January 13, 2026. We honor her life, courage, and enduring legacy in the Civil Rights Movement. Claudette Colvin—young, courageous, and defiant in the face of segregation—sparked one of the most infamous movements of the 20th century. In the heart of Montgomery, Alabama, she took…
Transforming memory into action, Hathaway has launched the Donny Hathaway Legacy Project. She says the nonprofit organization will create a space where culture, holistic healing and community meet mental health.
For Black women who lead in movements, ministries, nonprofits, classrooms, and boardrooms, the holidays can bring a mix of joy and exhaustion.