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New York State Poet Laureate, Audre Lorde, the Mother of Intersectional Feminism

By Feb 23rd
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 Weather Goddess & The Mistress of the Animal Kingdom

By Feb 15th
The First African American Mail Carrier Also Fought Wolves and Bears, and Shot a Man in the Behind

By Feb 14th
Royal Goddaughter to Queen Victoria, Sarah Forbes Bonetta

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

By Feb 11th
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
Drunk History Spotlights Nichelle Nichols, the “First Black Woman in Space for Fake”

By Feb 7th
Things We Saw Today: A Hilarious Dub of The Force Awakens From How It Should Have Ended

By Feb 6th
The First Silence Breaker: Harriet Ann Jacobs

By Feb 5th
Dodge Tastelessly Set a Car Commercial to One of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sermons

By Feb 5th
The National Hero of Jamaica, The Nanny of the Maroons

By Feb 3rd
Things We Saw Today: Things Are Not Looking Good for That Winchester Movie We Were so Excited About

By Feb 2nd
The Case of Elizabeth Key Grinstead, the First Freed Black Woman, Shows the Origin of Racism in the U.S.

By Feb 2nd