Tag: black women

In a country with violent history and violent politics, Brazil’s first all-female, Afro-Brazilian percussion group drums and dances and changes lives.

Born with serious CEO aspirations, Nicole Cyrus found her role model in a white kid from an ’80s sitcom.

“When I look at that dress and how much intention went into the making of it…it’s like we want to have something that can’t be destroyed, because so much of the past has been destroyed…”

While searching for photographs that depict black young women and girls living free in the second and third generations born after slavery, Saidiya Hartman finds a disturbing image.

More of this sort of thing, thanks.

Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

As Joy Notoma grapples with uterine fibroids, harmful biases in the medical establishment, and a move from Brooklyn to West Africa she wonders where, as a black woman, she can find safety.

Glory Edim talks about editing her new anthology, the push for equity in publishing, and how black women writers have written themselves into spaces that neglect or ignore them.

Carrie Mae Weems may be our best contemporary photographer.

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Joan Morgan’s “She Begat This” looks back at how Lauryn Hill crashed through hip-hop’s glass ceiling, while our critic looks at how the author and a cadre of black women writers did the same for hip-hop music journalism.

While healing from a back injury, Mariam I. Williams learns to let go of the ways she has been taught to mistrust her body.

An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.

A woman searches for love and belonging inside and outside of the Christian church.

The house at 808 East Lewis Street has helped the upwardly mobile reach for their dreams. It’s also seen great violence.

Raised by a single, independent mother, one young woman struggles with her familial inheritance and the relationship between self-sufficiency and social isolation.