With this work I aim to facilitate meaningful encounters with these women and shed light on historical antecedents reverberating in our present cultural and political moment.

May you cherish the exultations you heard & felt when you did all the mothering her dust

So unimaginable was a female judge that one newspaper reporter assigned to cover her first term of court in his county, despite knowing that the judge’s name was Susie, declared he was...

Lucille Richardson Eubanks had bright auburn hair that complemented her creamy freckled skin. She drove fast with the fervor and speed of a Formula One racer, wore smart dresses with high...

Overtaken by emotionally charged memories and hungering for new ways of blending advocacy and scholarship, she began filling her notebooks not only with the fruits of her research but also...

Women sing purple songs now, forever to themselves Ain’t I a Woman?

Affirming the history of Black women in the arts and declaring that Black women “demand” to have their visualizations of identity recognized as their particular truths, Catlett confirms...

While we commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, let us remember the women not enfranchised in 1920, especially in the South. Black women, Native women, immigrant women,...

“What is it about this place? Well, this is the land. Where our ancestors were. Where I was born. This is home. We are totally blessed to live in a place like this. There is no other...

Less dramatically, but not infrequently, women in other stories slip away. It’s an impulse for negotiating an impasse, for opening up a safe imaginative space, a way out, perhaps a new...

This time, I found myself peeling back layer after layer as I came to understand what this book was most about at its heart. It’s certainly about solving a mystery. It’s about place,...