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

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

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

By Princess WeekesFeb 14th
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
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
Drunk History Spotlights Nichelle Nichols, the “First Black Woman in Space for Fake”

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

By Kaila Hale-SternFeb 6th
The First Silence Breaker: Harriet Ann Jacobs

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

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

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

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

By Princess WeekesFeb 2nd