Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

This cultural history of nineteenth-century narratives of slave and free women traces the ways in which these writings began to resist dom...

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Africana Womanism - Reclaiming Ourselves

AFRICANA WOMANISM: RECLAIMING OURSELVES poses new challenges for the feminist movement. In fact, in the words of Delores P. Aldridge, it i...

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You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide

Though numerous studies have been conducted regarding perceived racial bias in newspaper reporting of violent crimes, few studies have foc...

8:30 AM

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent...

10:03 AM

Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction

May has written the first book to really situate Cooper as a radical intellectual. She elucidates not only Cooper's brilliant criti...

6:49 AM

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil RightsMovement

In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sin...

6:37 AM

A Voice From The South : A Black Woman from the South

Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers...

6:51 PM

Anna Julia Cooper and Black Women's Intellectual Tradition

Anna Julia Cooper was born a slave on the eve of the Civil War. She earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in the 1880s and a Doctorate from...

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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activismin America, 1890-1950

Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect...

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Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the...

3:59 AM

Essence: 25 Years of Celebrating Black Women

In 1970, Essence magazine was founded for African-American women to address a range of lifestyle issues - family, careers, personal relat...

10:17 AM

The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Womenin America

What is wrong with black women? Not a damned thing but the biased lens most people use to view them, says Tamara Winfrey Harris. When Af...

10:07 AM

Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle

Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from sla...

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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written and moving life of the 'Moses of her pe...

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Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons

Our Auntie Rosa  is the most intimate portrait yet of the great American hero—"the lady who refused to sit in the back of the bus....

8:56 AM

Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith

To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understandin...

11:39 AM

Black Women and International Law: Deliberate Interactions, Movements and Actions

From Compton to Cairo and Bahia to Brixton, black women have been disproportionally affected by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, discrim...

5:02 PM

Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography

Johnnie M. Stover explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans...

9:33 AM

Balancing Work and Life: The Nia Guide for Black Women

Second in a series of empowerment guides from NiaOnline.com, the web’s leading community site for black women. It’s a frank and personal g...

9:22 AM

10 Secrets to Growing Black Hair Long and Fast

Growing coily, kinky and afro-textured hair can be challenging: Have you ever felt like you hair stops growing past a certain length? Hav...

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