Black History
Five Books About Black Women You Should Read All Year Round
Excellent books to top your to-read list.
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Before Serena Williams, There Was Champion Tennis Player Althea Gibson
A new documentary remembers champion tennis pioneer, who was proudly assertive on the court and off.
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Praise for "Losing Ground" and Black Female Film Pioneers Is Long Overdue
Early Black female filmmakers made movies that resisted the very foundations of American cinema.
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Got the World in a Jug: The legacy of the blueswoman transcends genre
All brazen women in popular music, it could be argued, owe a debt to Bessie Smith. The no-nonsense, deep-voiced singer, nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, made more money than any other Black performer of her time, recording 160 songs between 1923 and 1931, many about sexual desire, abusive... Read more »
Remembering Claudette Colvin: An Overlooked Freedom Warrior
American kids all grow up learning the name Rosa Parks.
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Popaganda Episode: A Protest is Not a Riot
The movements that have arisen recently to challenge racism and violence in our justice system have created not only discussion and outrage, but a cultural shift. Out of racism and violence and sexism has come creativity: songs, chants, art, policy ideas, creative ways to push back against power... Read more »
Precious Mettle: The myth of the strong black woman
In a society that finds little to praise in black women, other groups’ appreciation for perceived black female strength can feel like a reductive appreciation. Strength becomes one of few positive adjectives black women can own.
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Applauding the Bootylicious Feminism of Beyonce and Josephine Baker
When Beyonce’s fifth studio album dropped late last year, she nearly broke the Internet. It was an epic reconnaissance commissioned by a pop queen determined to flex her might as a self-... Read more »
Why Black Dolls Matter
As a little girl, Samantha Knowles didn't stop to consider why most of her dolls—her American Girl dolls, her Cabbage Patch Kids, her Barbie dolls—were black like her. But black dolls were not common in her upstate New York hometown, whose population remains overwhelmingly... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Law Professor Patricia J. Williams Opens Up
Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, published these words twenty-five years ago in her renowned essay on slavery, race, gender, and rights called “On Being the Object of Property”:
There are moments in my... Read more »
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