Tag: Black Women’s History Month

An Open Letter To WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert

Source: Angelina Katsanis / Getty Dear Cathy, First and foremost, I’m sending you, Adam Silver, and the entire league my congratulations as you enter into the WNBA’s historic 30th season.  As a fan, I attended my first WNBA game in the late ’90s at Madison Square Garden, rooting for the New York Liberty. One of […]

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Black Professor Sews Quilt Honoring Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer 

Source: J. Janice Coleman / facebook An English professor at the Mississippi HBCU Alcorn State University has sewn a quilt honoring civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.  In an interview with Mississippi Today, Professor J. Janice Coleman explained her history with quilting and what led her to make a quilt honoring Fannie Lou Hamer. She […]

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Thriving Together: What Becomes Possible When Black Women Choose Each Other? 

Source: Sabrina Bracher / Getty   Women’s History Month, and certainly Black Women’s History Month, invites us to celebrate the women who changed the course of history. Yet some of the most transformative acts of women’s leadership unfold in quieter ways, through the everyday choices women make to support, uplift, and invest in one another personally and […]

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