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3 days ago · Event Details: Decades before the Emancipation Proclamation, Elizabeth Gloucester was born into slavery around 1817 in the state of Virginia. When she died in 1883, she was a free woman whose real estate empire made her one of the wealthiest members of a prosperous Black community that thrived in 19th-century Brooklyn.
22 hours ago · Traverse through history as we celebrate the elegance, strength, and lasting influence of 17 beautiful Black women who have profoundly impacted past generati...
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4 days ago · It happened because over 6 million women and 1 million Black men went to work in the factories, steel mills and shipyards that made all the materials used by us and our allies that led to the end ...
22 hours ago · African-American history started with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. [1] The European colonization of the Americas, and the resulting Atlantic slave trade, led to a large-scale ...
4 days ago · 1. Whoopi Goldberg. A picture of Whoopie Goldberg. She is an iconic actress, producer and comedian who rose into the limelight in 1985 when she starred in a film known as The Color Purple. Her incredible performance earned her an Academy nomination. Her ability to transform seamlessly from dramatic to comedy roles is what makes her a great actress.
5 days ago · First, considering African-American women’s experiences of slavery within the context of Atlantic history fosters not only comparative history approaches, but explores the emerging economic connections between West Africa, the Caribbean and North America using the lens of women’s bodies.
1 day ago · Feinstein goes on to analyse instances in which white women did resist white men’s sexual abuse of black women. Here, she highlights that in such cases white women rarely objected on behalf of victimised black women, but instead emphasised the ways that white men’s behaviour degraded white women, and the evils of racial amalgamation.
