A new book, “Blackbirds Singing,” offers a collection of speeches and quotations from African American women who have fought back against their words being distorted, trivialized, and ignored.
Black women are especially vulnerable to harm derived from hair styling practices.
On September 10 Gauff won her first-ever Grand Slam tournament after defeating Aryna Sabalenka.
During Black History Month, at a time when Black history is being banned in schools, we remember the mothers of the reparations movement.
An initiative to digitize and reorganize the archives of The Afro American, the United States’ longest-running Black-owned newspaper, will give scholars, journalists, and the public new insights into history.
The disturbing and pervasive truth is that Black girls haven’t been afforded childhood during the pandemic, but that had also been true well before COVID-19.
The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”
Now that Justice Amy Coney Barrett has taken her seat, the ultraconservative court appears poised to curtail the Affordable Care Act and reproductive rights. The damage can be addressed with action at the local level.
Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.
Despite the unfulfilled promise of the 19th Amendment, Black women have traveled an impressive distance over the last century, and continue to exert outsize political influence.
“Remember the true meaning of Juneteenth — a celebration kept alive by generations of black people.”
Of the many astonishing developments to come from COVID-19, the angry assemblies of Americans in many states requesting that the government reopen the country rank high.
The disparate impact of the coronavirus on Black women is revealing and deepening existing inequalities. Fighting it requires an intersectional approach.
Johnson not only calculated the trajectory for America’s first space trip with astronaut Alan Shepard and the calculations for the first moon landing in 1969 but also overcame racism and sexism throughout her career.
These recent works by Black women historians challenge conventional narratives of the history of the United States.
Although media attention to the problem has waned, the harsh reality is that between 64,000 and 75,000 Black women and girls are currently missing in the U.S.
The report discovered that scripted crime television shows, which millions of viewers tune into on a regular basis, depict a false narrative about the unchecked heroism of law enforcement.
Waves is rare in its willingness to present a blurred marriage of volatility and sympathy without preaching or suggesting anything to the viewer. The movie itself crashes down on the audience like a wave, putting viewers in a state of constant unrest.
In a world in which long hair is equated to femininity and beauty, Tunzi challenged patriarchal prescriptions for what an ideal beautiful woman should look like. And that decision — among her many other qualifications and great performance — earned her the crown.
Get Out succeeds so magnificently because it tackles large and complex theoretical subjects in a creative and imaginative way.
I used to think that kids who live in nice homes and attend good schools are not supposed to feel hopeless. I thought Black students like me were always supposed to be strong and overcome whatever we encountered the way our ancestors did.
Black Twitter is generally known as a space for responses to cultural events and light-hearted humor. But it is also a genuinely critical space for black intellectuals and influencers, providing them a unique platform to explore the nuances of black Americans' lived experiences.
Beyoncé’s choice to place Black womanhood at the center of her new Netflix documentary, Homecoming, is a powerful form of social resistance.
Who gets to tell stories of black trauma and how and when should they tell them?