Writers like Phillis Wheatley ... making her the first African American woman to publish a book of poems and the first enslaved Black woman to publish a book. The collection features one of ...
In The Trouble of Color, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family ...
After passage of the 19th Amendment, Burroughs formed the National League of Republican Colored Women and worked to mobilize African American women politically. Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837-1913 ...
Nelson is a CNN Legal & Political commentator, a USA Today opinion writer, and an award-winning journalist and the author of three non-fiction books.Sophia was the first African American woman to ...
In an event presented by the Sonoma County Library and Petaluma Blacks for Community Development, author Miriam Thaggert will ...