Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: In the fight for civil rights in America, Black women have steadily led the way for centuries. Black women led the Underground Railroad, were the unsung leaders of the suffrage movement, organized freedom riders, paved the way for constitutional...
Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: When Ursula Burns became the CEO of Xerox in 2009 at age 50, she was the first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. What did she learn along the way? “A lot of what pioneers do, they do not benefit from themselves,” she says. Climbing to the top of...
Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: In light of Joe Biden’s reported lead in Georgia in the presidential race, Abrams is earning praise for protecting voting rights. Here, we look back on her years-long history of fighting injustice. Just two years ago, Stacey Abrams lost Georgia’s...
Oct 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American...
Aug 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to defeat...
Aug 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: Before Breonna Taylor was a name chanted in the streets and scrawled on signs, before she was a face emblazoned on street murals and the cover of Oprah’s magazine, before she was the reason millions of Americans started clamoring for criminal charges to be...
