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Ashawnta Jackson
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Jun 19, 2018
She was one of the first black women to host a television show
Then the House Un-American Activities Committee came for her
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Khanya Mtshali
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May 10, 2018
The radical history of the headwrap
Born into slavery, then reclaimed by black women, the headwrap is…
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Bené Viera
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Apr 26, 2018
Maya Angelou wrote her first book because her editor said she couldn’t
The reverse psychology was…
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Coshandra Dillard
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Apr 26, 2018
Meet the heroic cross-dressing women warriors of the Civil War
Being outed as women, battlefield…
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Bené Viera
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Apr 19, 2018
Police barred these black activists from the House floor, while a white Nazi in blackface got in
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Bené Viera
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Apr 18, 2018
When a white conductor tried to manhandle Ida B. Wells, she took a bite out of his hand
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Bené Viera
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Apr 13, 2018
This Harlem Renaissance writer seemed to live an ordinary life — but her diaries revealed years of passionate lesbian…
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Bené Viera
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Apr 9, 2018
When this fancy restaurant refused to serve Josephine Baker, her badass takedown didn’t disappoint
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Nina Renata Aron
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Mar 27, 2018
This Harlem Renaissance star dressed in drag, sang dirty songs, and hit the town with three ladies on her arm
Gladys Bentley proudly married a woman, then said she was ‘cured’ and married a man
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Bené Viera
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Mar 27, 2018
If this trailblazing journalist hadn’t been a black woman, you would know her name
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