Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Woman Writer Saidiya Hartman
Black woman writer, author and scholar Tiya Miles is inspired by and gives credit and mention to...
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All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: A Woman Writer Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: In Her Name, American Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
A few weeks back, I came upon a term I had not heard before, the ‘Matilda Effect’. It’s defined...
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Polly Coppinger’s Son: Osceola,”Master Spirit of the Seminole Nation” (1804-1838)
National Indigenous Peoples Day is being celebrated across the United States this week. Malinda...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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