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As Black History Month Ends, We Remember the Ones Who Didn’t Make It

By Feb 28th
Claudia Gordon, the First Deaf Black Woman to Become a Lawyer

By Feb 27th
The Black Women of Fantasy/Sci-Fi Television Who Get It Done … Even When the Fandom Hates Them

By Feb 26th
Octavia’s Daughters: The Amazing Women of Black Sci-Fi

By Feb 25th
To Be Young, Gifted and Black and Gay: Lorraine Hansberry

By Feb 24th
Gladys Bentley, the Cross-Dressing Lesbian Who Rocked the Harlem Renaissance

By Feb 22nd
Una Marson: Jamaica’s First Female Editor and Publisher

By Feb 21st
The Crimean War Nurse Who Became The Greatest Black Briton

By Feb 20th
All the Presidents’ Slaves: Bondage Within the White House

By Feb 19th
For Colored Girls Who Listened To Rap When R’n’B Wasn’t Enough

By Feb 18th
The Igbo Women Who Went to War Against British Colonizers

By Feb 17th
The Emancipator of the Ndongo People Warrior Queen Nzinga

By Feb 16th
The First African American Mail Carrier Also Fought Wolves and Bears, and Shot a Man in the Behind

By Feb 14th
The Amazons of Dahomey Were Real-Life Dora Milaje Who Took on the French Army

By Feb 13th
Royal Goddaughter to Queen Victoria, Sarah Forbes Bonetta

By Feb 12th
Rulers of the Sky: The Rain Queens of Balobedu

By Feb 11th
Oh Captain, My Captain, the Scifi Legacy of Gina Torres. Stay Shiny Captain!

By Feb 10th
How Gabrielle Union Films Taught Me About Colorism

By Feb 9th
From Slave to Dressmaker for the First Lady: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley

By Feb 8th
Black History Month 2018: The Universal Poet, June Jordan

By Feb 7th