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The Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 31, 2021October 19, 2022

“Today, the work done by Parrish in the nineteen-twenties and Gates in the nineteen-nineties forms the bedrock for books, documentaries, and a renewed reparations push that, a century after the massacre, is experiencing a groundswell of support.”

Posted inNonfiction

The Story of Salvador’s Banda Didá

by Tari Ngangura December 13, 2019December 30, 2022

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

Posted inBusiness, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Leaning In with Alex P. Keaton

by Nicole Cyrus December 5, 2019December 30, 2022

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

Posted inStory

“We’re All Still Cooking…Still Raw at the Core”: An Interview with Jacqueline Woodson

by Adam Morgan September 30, 2019January 27, 2023

“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…”

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

A Minor Figure

by Longreads July 19, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inBooks, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

If Following McMillan Cottom and Gay on Twitter Isn’t Enough, Here You Go

by michelleweber April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

More of this sort of thing, thanks.

Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Featured, Story

Faith and Reproductive Justice Are Not in Opposition

by Danielle Jackson March 12, 2019October 19, 2022

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

Posted inEditor's Pick

At Risk, at Home and Abroad

by Sari Botton January 14, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

At Risk, at Home and Abroad

by Joy Notoma January 14, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

At Risk, at Home and Abroad

by Joy Notoma January 14, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

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