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4 days ago · We wish you a happy and glorious Black History Month! This month we are reflecting and paying homage to the black women who have shaped our world and set the foundation for black women of the present and the future. Let’s celebrate by looking at some of the countless powerful black women in history from A-Z! Audre Lorde. A is for Audre Lorde!
2 days ago · Berenice Abbott’s 1928 portrait of Sylvia Beach is electric. Clad in a liquid-black rain slicker and creamy white scarf, the founder of an iconic Paris bookstore has a sharp, unflinching gaze.
3 days ago · Black Patriots. On 5 March 1770, a mob of around 300 American Patriots accosted nine British soldiers on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Outraged by the British occupation of their city, as well as the recent murder of an 11-year-old boy, the crowd was filled with Bostonians from all walks of life; among them was Crispus Attucks, a mixed-race sailor commonly thought to have been of ...
2 days ago · JONES IS ONE of several contemporary Black women artists for whom minimalism — long marked by its hypermasculinity and by the conspicuous absence of nonwhite artists — has unexpectedly become ...
5 days ago · It is little known that Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883), one of the icons of America’s Black liberation movement, was a native speaker of Dutch.
3 days ago · Angela Davis. Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for ...
4 days ago · Remarkable Legacies of American Women. From the lives of young, immigrant women who worked the textile mills at Lowell National Historic Park to those of the female shipyard workers who were essential to the home front during World War II at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park, women’s history can be found at every park.
