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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,

The first time I heard about Josephine Butler was when I stepped into the building named after her––the Josephine Butler

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

Last month, students at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges ended their two-week hunger strike designed to raise awareness about food insecurity