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Madam C.J. Walker, the first U.S. self-made female millionaire, gets her own Barbie

August 29, 2022

CLARISSA SLIGH – Center for Book Arts

August 17, 2022

There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis

August 7, 2022
Author: Cynthia R. Wallace in Ploughshares at Emerson College 2021

WHAT’S IN A BIRD’S NAME? (When Honorifics Were Bestowed)

August 6, 2022

AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVISTS Claudette Colvin and Ida B. Wells

August 2, 2022

ELIZABETH ALBRIGHT – Narrative Oil Painter

July 15, 2022

Dual honors for Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson

June 16, 2022
Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson, a leading national commentator on American history and politics, recently received two noteworthy honors.

OP Connections: Statement in Support of National Black Sisters’ Conference Statement in Response to Mass Shooting in Buffalo

May 21, 2022
The Adrian Dominican Sisters stand in support and solidarity of the May 18, 2022, statement by the National Black Sisters’ Conference deploring the “irrational act of violence” against 10 innocent pe…

The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1964

April 22, 2022
In the greatest mass movement in modern American history, black demonstrations swept the country seeking constitutional equality at the national level, as well as an end to Massive Resistance (stat…

20 books that are essential reading for Black History Month

February 5, 2022
Offered by Flatiron Writers Room

Racism in Disguise? (No, not even disguised!)

February 4, 2022
Let’s not pretend, (to do so is embarrassing.)

A Black Woman Could Make the Supreme Court More Reflective of American Values

January 26, 2022
By Allison Gaines in Zora, and in MEDIUM DAILY DIGEST It’s time to do what we can to put a Black woman on the bench. Let’s unpack this.