When Americans think of the Civil Rights Movement, familiar names rise to the top, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and other prominent male figures. But the people who built the strategies, trained the activists, organized the communities, and sustained the movement day after day were often Black women, women whose names rarely make […]

For more than four centuries, Black Americans have endured one of the longest, most sustained systems of oppression in world history, slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, mass incarceration, economic exclusion, medical discrimination, housing segregation, and cultural theft. And yet, out of this trauma rose a global cultural powerhouse. Black America not only survived, Black America rebuilt, […]

For generations, Black Americans have grown up with a version of U.S. history that feels incomplete by design. Schools teach about slavery, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks, then skip entire eras of Black power, Black wealth, Black political leadership, and Black brilliance that transformed America long before the Civil Rights Movement. The truth […]