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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Princess WeekesFeb 10th
How Gabrielle Union Films Taught Me About Colorism

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

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

By Princess WeekesFeb 7th