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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

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

In today’s post, Tiana U. Wilson, assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, interviews Dr. Vicki Alexander on

Earlier this year, we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As we look to the future,

Contemporary Black women writers weave words into imaginary worlds to create fiction that defies neat, tidy genre distinctions. Comic books,