Black Women’s Histories and the Power of Truth-Telling
Not long after Oprah Winfrey, the iconic media mogul and pioneer for African American women in film, television, and journalism,
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Women
Josephine Butler and Environmental Activism in Washington, DC
The first time I heard about Josephine Butler was when I stepped into the building named after her––the Josephine Butler
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Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls
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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life
Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I
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Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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