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Ella Josephine Baker

Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Ella Josephine Baker: A Suffrage Champion and True Civil Rights Icon

by Stacy M. Brown February 26, 2020December 21, 2021

Katherine Johnson

Black Experience, Black History

Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician of ‘Hidden Figures’ Fame, Dies at 101

by WI Guest Author February 24, 2020December 21, 2021

"A Black Woman Did That" by Malaika Adero features short stories on 42 prominent Black women and their accomplishments. (Courtesy of Downtown Bookworks)

Black Experience, Books, Lifestyle

‘Black Woman’ Book Fetes Extraordinary Female Achievements

by Brenda C. Siler February 19, 2020December 21, 2021

Frances "Fannie" Barrier Williams

Black Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Frances ‘Fannie’ Barrier Williams a Champion for Women’s Suffrage, African Americans

by Stacy M. Brown February 19, 2020December 21, 2021

Ida B. Wells

Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Ida B. Wells’ Brave Speech on Lynching During Suffrage Movement

by Stacy M. Brown February 12, 2020December 21, 2021

Jennifer King (Courtesy of the Washington Redskins)

Black Experience, Sports

Redskins Hire Jennifer King as Full-Year Coaching Intern

by WI Guest Author February 11, 2020December 21, 2021

Martha S. Jones (Photo by Aaron Salcido via Zócalo Public Square)

Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Professor’s Book Chronicles Struggles, Heroics of Black Women of the Suffrage Movement

by Stacy M. Brown February 5, 2020December 21, 2021

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (Courtesy of the National Archives)

Black Experience, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Remembering Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, an Educator of Black Women Suffrage

by Stacy M. Brown January 22, 2020December 21, 2021

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and made over 70 documented rescues from Maryland, including her family. She became an abolitionist, civil war spy and suffragist. This mural called the Wall of Tubman depicts stages of her life as a slave to a free woman. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Op-Ed, Opinion, Women's Suffrage Movement

McKINNEY: Redefining Suffrage, Unerasing Black Women

by WI Guest Author January 15, 2020December 21, 2021

Rhodes House in Oxford (Wikimedia Commons)

Four Black Women Named as Rhodes Scholars

by WI Guest Author January 14, 2020December 21, 2021