Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
Although I had been dabbling with the idea for quite some time, I started writing a book on Black women
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Gender
The Grassroots Organizing of Black Women in the North before 1954
This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Dr. Hettie V. Williams’s
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Black Women, Public Housing, and Resistance
For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of
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The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women
In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son
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Requiem for a Howard University Student
On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a
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