The Lemonade Reader, edited by Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin, is a critical study on not only Black women, Black feminism, and Black...
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this just a few weeks after the Women’s marches of 2019. Tens of thousands of women — non-binary, trans, gender variant,...
Today is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I almost hate that we commemorated a holiday in his honor because I’m convinced iconicity leads...
I finished Episode 6 of #survivingrkelly executive produced by dream hampton late last night. Full disclosure: I am a Black woman sexual assault survivor who...
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read a collective statement from The Damned Collective to/with/for...
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson call to White Women...
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago...
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read and certainly be inspired by this collective statement...
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
We are pleased to announce the publication of Tamura Lomax’s new book, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Duke University Press),...
Sept 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” premiered on Broadway for the first...
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer When Aretha Franklin recorded her live “Amazing Grace” album with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir at the New Temple...
By Andrea Plaid I’m not even sure who Rev. Jasper Williams was talking about in his eulogy. I know it wasn’t Mother Franklin. Not the...
By Candace Laughinghouse Unbreakable, unrestricted, understood by black women everywhere. A eulogy is a spoken “good word,” traditionally given at the final celebration of one...
By Crystal Rook The first rose I will give You will be the Prickly Wild Rose to commemorate the struggles, mountains, disappointments, battles, joys, freedom,...
By Aesha Adams-Roberts I first heard Aretha Franklin’s voice when I was just seven or eight-years-old, when she sang “Freeway of Love.” I’m almost certain...
By Rashod Grove With the passing of Aretha Louise Franklin, the world bid farewell to the greatest vocalist in the history of recorded American music....
By Kim Lett Aretha Louise Franklin invited us into her world, where she demanded “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” leaving a remarkable legacy. She, through her meaningful sounds and...