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Mary Church Terrell, Reproductive Loss, and the Meaning of Motherhood

October 13, 2026October 12, 2026 Elizabeth Gonzalez 1 Comment
Black women, Children, Club women, motherhood

Mary Church Terrell provides us with a unique glimpse into the struggles of infertility for a Black woman at the

Joseph Williams on Black Women’s Intellectual Activism

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Ashley Everson Black Newspapers, Black women, Club women, Gender

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought, interviews Joseph Williams, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies

The Grassroots Organizing of Black Women in the North before 1954

January 27, 2025January 19, 2025 Patricia Reid-Merritt #GeorgiaOfTheNorth, Black women, civil rights, Club women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Hettie V. Williams’s The Georgia of the North. Dr. Hettie V. Williams’s

Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb Those

Albertha Johnston Murray: The Life of a Local Public Intellectual

December 2, 2022November 30, 2022 Candace Cunningham Albertha Johnston Murray, Club women, education, intellectuals, South Carolina

Some of America’s most celebrated Black intellectuals—Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Ida B. Wells, Carter G. Woodson,