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Nannie Burroughs, ca. 1900 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)

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

Suffragist Leader Nannie Helen Burroughs Lived Her Best Life

by Stacy M. Brown October 9, 2019December 21, 2021

Toni Morrison

Columnists, D Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Some Sisters May Be ‘Sheroes’ But They Have Miles to Go to Achieve Icon Status

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor September 18, 2019December 21, 2021

Columnists, Julianne Malveaux

MALVEAUX: No More Mary Turners

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux July 26, 2019December 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)

Black Experience, Black History

Trump Admin Delays Harriet Tubman $20 Bill

by WI Guest Author May 24, 2019December 21, 2021

Courtesy photo

Black Experience, National

West Point Academy Graduates Largest-Ever Number of Black Women

by WI Guest Author May 13, 2019December 21, 2021

In celebration of Women’s History Month and the 192ndanniversary of the Black Press, Hazel Trice Edney presented the 2019 Stateswomen for Justice luncheon and panel discussion at the National Press Club in Northwest on Friday, March 29. Trice Edney with panelists (L-R): Kezia Williams - CEO of the Black upstart, Dr. Lezli Baskerville - president and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), Dr. E. Faye Williams - national chair, National Congress of Black Women, Hazel Trice Edney, Dr. Princess Asie Ocansey – Nekotech Center of Excellence, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Janice Mathis, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, and Kim Sanders, president and CEO of the National Bankers Association. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

WILLIAMS: Grateful

by WI Guest Author April 10, 2019October 31, 2020

Business, National

Fight for Equal Pay, Gender Parity Heats Up

by WI Guest Author April 9, 2019October 31, 2020

University of Maryland School of Law graduate Juanita Jackson Mitchell in cap and gown with her sons Clarence M. Mitchell III, Keiffer Mitchell and Michael Bowen Mitchell at the university's College Park campus (Paul Henderson/Maryland Historical Society)

Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Women’s History Month: Juanita Jackson Mitchell

by Stacy M. Brown March 20, 2019October 31, 2020

Fannie Lou Hamer after being beaten in jail, June 1963 (FBI photo)

Black Experience, Black History

Phenomenal Women: Fannie Lou Hamer

by WI Webstaff March 6, 2019October 31, 2020

Terri Broussard Williams

Black Experience, National

Black History Month: Black Woman Remain the Backbone of the Struggle

by Stacy M. Brown January 30, 2019October 31, 2020