Rethinking Black Women’s History

    Women's importance in history has been either omitted or lessened let alone black women's. They became the  hidden figures of  history in general. In the courses of events, their roles and contributions  have been simply ignored in profit of  "those great men." So, it seems urgent now that we take into consideration the …

Jeanne and Paulette Nardal: the Forgotten Figures of the “Négritude” Movement

Brief-Bio Jeanne "Jane" Nardal (1900 – 1993)  was a writer, philosopher, teacher, and political commentator from Martinique. She and her sister, Paulette Nardal(12 October 1896 – 16 February 1985) are considered to have laid the theoretical and philosophical groundwork of the Négritude movement, a cultural, political, and literary movement, which first emerged in 1930s, Paris and sought to …

Augusta Savage : a well-deserved artist and…

Augusta Savage, original name Augusta Christine Fells, (born February 29, 1892, Green Cove Springs, Florida, U.S.—died March 26, 1962, New York, New York), American sculptor and educator who battled racism to secure a place for African American women in the art world. The most popular work in a huge New York exhibition of African-American artists in 1967 was a plaster head of an attractive boy modeled almost forty years earlier.Gamin, which has moved people ever since Augusta Savage created it, is one of the few fully realized works of an artist whose total output was small and uneven. Brilliant, …

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

BIOGRAPHY Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. They are one of the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' for 2018, selected by Carmen Maria Machado. Currently longlisted for the Carnegie Medal of Excellence and short-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, their debut autobiographical novel FRESHWATER …

bell hooks (my favorite quotations)

1-“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman  has ever  written  enough.”  ― bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work 2-“Being oppressed  means the absence  of  choices”  3-“Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and …

Maria W. Stewart: Powerful Public Orator for Black Women’s Rights

Maria W. Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first woman in America and the first African-American woman to make public lectures. Stewart is known for four powerful speeches, delivered in Boston in the early 1830s—a time when no woman, Black or whyte, dared to address an audience from a public …

Aretha Franklin: The Queen of the Soul (R.E.S.P.E.C.T)

She Born on March 25, 1942, and died at age of 76 in her hometown of Detroit on August, 16, 2018. She definitely left an unfathomable impact across the entire globe. The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is one of the most honored artists in Grammy history and the first female artist to be inducted …

Quotes by Ann Plato

1- A good education is another name for happiness.  2- To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. 3- A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be …

ANN PLATO (1820?–1860)

BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE There are few known details about the life of nineteenth-century poet Ann Plato. It is known that Ann Plato was a free African American who lived in Hartford, Connecticut. Ann Plato was also an essayist and schoolteacher who described herself as a pious woman of modest worth. It is also known that Plato …

Ilhan Omar and the Conquest of America

     Ilhan Omar was born in 1982[3] in Mogadishu and was raised in Baydhabo, Somalia.[4][5] She was the youngest of seven siblings and grew up in an upper-middle-class household. Ilhan's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, is Somali, and worked as a teacher trainer.[6] Her mother was Yemeni, and died when Omar was a child.[7] She was thereafter raised by her father and grandfather. She escaped her war-torn homeland …

Wangari Maathai: The Green Lady

Wangari Maathai, in full Wangari Muta Maathai, (born April 1, 1940, Nyeri, Kenya—died September 25, 2011, Nairobi), Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, becoming the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her work was often considered both unwelcome and subversive in her own country, …