- 21. Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
- (Living)
- ... as an African-American woman marked by a particular history"—which she later termed as "writing myself in,” according to The New York Times. Butler’s stories, therefore, were typically written from the ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 22. Kara Walker Helped Define An Entire Generation Of Black Creators—Now, Her Artwork Is On Full Display For The First Time
- (Arts)
- ... she found in the silhouette. The silhouette cutout has a bourgeois, feminine tradition and was also practiced in the United States in the 19th century by African Americans. It was considered a handicraft, ...
- Created on 26 May 2021
- 23. Another Black Trans Woman Was Murdered. Here Are 10 Black Trans-Led Organizations To Support Right Now.
- (Feminism)
- ... 2. Black Trans Women, Inc. - BTWI is a national nonprofit organization that works to address the concerns facing African American ...
- Created on 15 April 2021
- 24. Jennifer Mack-Watkins's Newest Exhibit is An Ode to the Beauty of Black Yout
- (Arts)
- ... around an African-American schoolgirl who was told to "recite a white-written poem while holding a caricatured Black doll…," and thus decided to use doll-imagery as the basis for her central theme. Such ...
- Created on 08 April 2021
- 25. Morgan Jerkins' Debut Novel, "Caul Baby," Is A Healing Work of Black Family Folklor
- (Books)
- Morgan Jerkins’ Caul Baby is an expansive, folklorish tale of two families—both headed by Black matriarchs—that intertwine for over 20 years. The Melancons are born with a “caul”—a special extra layer ...
- Created on 06 April 2021
- 26. Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
- (Living)
- ... been used in African-American and African-diasporic art to express the Black experience, as beautifully exemplified today by artist Laetitia KY. And the next time you bristle at the tangled clumps in your ...
- Created on 05 April 2021
- 27. Fashion Nova's $1 Million "Women On Top" Campaign Demonstrates How The Brand Can't Stop Exploiting Black Wo
- (Feminism)
- ... and body type. Even Fashion Nova’s marketing strategies particularly target Black women consumers through urban music, blogs, influencers, and the flagrant utilization of African-American Vernacular English ...
- Created on 25 March 2021
- 28. Why We Love The Cozy Quilted Trend And These Three Designers Who Are Nailing It
- (Style)
- ... and many patchwork styles are inextricably intertwined with African culture, history, and diaspora. Following in the steps of the Gee’s Bend quiltmakers and the women of Namibia’s Herero tribe, Nsikak’s ...
- Created on 10 March 2021
- 29. How She Shreds Is Helping Women Of Color Heal (And Learn Guitar) During A Pandemic
- (Music)
- ... especially Hispanic women who “are at a higher risk for depression than Caucasian and African American women.” So how does one grapple with pandemic woes? Two words: sore fingers. Before this unravels ...
- Created on 19 February 2021
- 30. Catch First Time Directorial Debuts From Questlove to Rebecca Hall, 10 Must-See Films From Sundance 2021
- (Entertainment)
- ... Rebecca Hall’s sophisticated directorial debut film PASSING is a meditation on race, repression and jealousy. Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) a refined, upper-class 1920s African American woman runs into ...
- Created on 12 February 2021
- 31. Nikole Hannah-Jones on "The 1619 Project's" Genesis, Backlash And What's N
- (Feminism)
- ... “Beyoncé of Journalism” had a single, simple goal in mind when creating her historical collection of essays, poetry, and multimedia stories about the 400th anniversary of the year enslaved Africans set ...
- Created on 14 January 2021
- 32. PJ Harvey Goes Into a Capitalist Whirlwind With New Film A Dog Called Money
- (Blog)
- ... / A Dog Called Money When her and Murphy document life in Washington D.C. they focus on the neglect and poverty experienced by the African American communities living separately but in close proximity ...
- Created on 16 December 2020
- 33. Culture Critics Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham Commemorate This Moment in Time With Their New Book Black Futures
- (Books)
- ... American painter Toyin Ojih Odutola, screen shots from video game designer Momo Pixel, photography by South African LGBTQIA activist Zanele Muholi, and many other works. “I think that there’s this notion ...
- Created on 01 December 2020
- 34. Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
- (Feminism)
- ... for governor of that state in 2018 that she became known on the national stage. As the Democratic candidate, she became the first-ever African-American gubernatorial major-party nominee—running against ...
- Created on 05 November 2020
- 35. 10 Famous Bisexual Women from The Past to Know Now For BiVisibility
- (Feminism)
- ... in the 1920s through the 1970s. She was the first African American to star in her own television show and the first African American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy. In the 1920s, Waters lived ...
- Created on 05 October 2020
- 36. Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
- (Blog)
- ... the former GOP chairman and Maryland's first African-American Lieutenant Governor, suggested in a phone interview that Trump nominees' silence on Brown v. Board of Education leaves open the possibilit ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 37. 5 Claims Trump Made That Were Just Flat-Out Lies
- (General)
- ... in the 1994 Crime Bill, he called African-Americans “super-predators.” That statement was famously uttered by Hillary Clinton, not Biden. During the debate Trump kept saying that when Biden was involved ...
- Created on 30 September 2020
- 38. Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
- (Feminism)
- ... They went into every kind of factory devoted to the production of war materials, from the most dangerous posts in munitions plants to the delicate sewing in aeroplane factories,” African-American journalist ...
- Created on 29 September 2020
- 39. The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
- (Feminism)
- ... groups in Florida only supported the white woman’s right to vote, so, African American women were frequently excluded from the suffrage organizations. Florida did not hold a vote on the 19th amendment ...
- Created on 18 August 2020
- 40. Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
- (General)
- ... wouldn’t be the group’s only bombing. Over the course of only two years, M19 bombed several locations, including an FBI office, the South African consulate in New York, and Washington D.C.’s Fort McNair ...
- Created on 30 July 2020
