Black women were an important part of the growing women suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1913 in advance of a women’s parade to advocate for the amendment and ratification ...

The author of the song was suffragette, typist ... “Knowing the story of struggle of a black woman like me further increased my desire to learn to play the piano,” she revealed.

Not likely the woman who, like Douglass, spoke truth to power as an activist fighting for suffrage for Black women a century-and-a-half before there Black women could be a decisive force in the ...

Now, an ambitious new three-play series, “Suffrage in Black and White,” shines a spotlight on the city’s rich connections with women’s suffrage and its intersections with the early ...

The story chronicles King’s struggle to secure unencumbered black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This time I watched with a particular question in mind: how ...

Just days before Black Friday 2023, I learned about the Black Friday of 1910 — the one that has nothing to do with great sales and American consumerism, but, instead, is a historic day that ...