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We’re Celebrating Black History Month Without You, Google Calendar!

February 13, 2025

By Christian Coleman | Did you check your phones? Is it any shock that Google Calendar genuflected to the current scorched-earth administration’s anti-DEI tour and removed Black History Month from its holiday list during Black History Month? Is it a shock that they claimed their holiday list wasn’t “globally scalable or sustainable?” Talk about Big Tech being an avowed fascist’s pick me. Doublespeak and all. Well, guess what, Google Calendar? We don’t need you to recognize Black History Month. Read more →

Posted at 12:30 PM in A Black Women’s History of the United States, A Worthy Piece of Work, All Labor Has Dignity, American Society, And the Category Is..., Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, History, Kindred, Literature and the Arts, Progressive Education, Race and Ethnicity in America, Science and Medicine, Slavery After Slavery, Storming Caesars Palace: New and Revised Edition, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: 10th-Anniversary Edition, The White Peril, Three Leaves, Three Roots, Twice As Hard | | Comments (0)

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Women’s History Month Reads to Celebrate the Women Who Tell Our Stories

March 16, 2023

Whip out that #OscarsSoMale hashtag. This year, the Academy snubbed such filmmakers as Gina Prince-Bythewood, Maria Schrader, Sarah Polley, and Charlotte Wells as Best Director nominees. In “The Wrong Kind of Women,” Naomi McDougall Jones writes that this snubbery—read: discrimination—owes itself to “the film industry’s fetishization of the male ‘genius’ auteur filmmaker.” Must the patriarchy be so basic? At least Sarah Polley took home a Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for her film “Women Talking.” Read more →

Posted at 03:32 PM in Being Heumann, Christian Coleman, Code of Silence, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Looking for Lorraine, Momfluenced, Reclaiming Our Space, Shout, Sister, Shout! Reissue, Storming Caesars Palace: New and Revised Edition, The Patriarchs, The Wrong Kind of Women, Twice As Hard, With Her Fist Raised | | Comments (0)

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Black Resistance Knows No Bounds in History: A Reading List

February 17, 2023

The Sunshine Pearl-Clutching Brigade is back on their BS and doubling down. Under Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida banned a new AP African American Studies course under the pretense that it’s “indoctrination” that “runs afoul of [their] standards.” This is almost a year after the Florida legislature banned the teaching of “the state-sanctioned racism that is critical race theory” with the Stop WOKE Act. It’s giving unwoke on numerous levels. Read more →

Posted at 03:33 PM in A Black Women’s History of the United States, A Worthy Piece of Work, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, And the Category Is..., Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Freedom Dreams, History, Jesus and the Disinherited, Living While Black, One Drop, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, School Clothes, Science and Medicine, Soul Culture, The Birdcatcher, Twice As Hard | | Comments (0)

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Black Women Physicians’ Stories Have Gone Untold for Far Too Long

February 10, 2023

A Q&A with Jasmine Brown | In college, I dreamed of becoming a physician and a national leader who would make a positive impact in many people’s lives. But I was acutely aware of how few Black women there were in senior positions within the medical field, such as the dean of a medical school or chair of a medical department. Black women physicians are even underrepresented at the level of professorship in many medical schools. So, I worried that my career would be severely restricted by a glass ceiling imposed upon me due to my race and gender. Read more →

Posted at 04:10 PM in Bev Rivero, Biography and Memoir, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, History, Jasmine Brown, Race and Ethnicity in America, Science and Medicine, Twice As Hard | | Comments (0)

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