Culture-Keepers in Changing Times For this edition of #SistoryLessons, I'm thinking a lot about women’s voices in the face of adversity. Whether we have loved ones in harm’s way, are ourselves facing precarity, or...
Shepherding Others to a New Life Originally posted as #SistoryLessons newsletter April 1, 2026 As we turn the page on Women's History Month, it's important to remember that our celebration of and gratitude to Our Brave Foremothers is...
Don't Mess With These Galz! Originally posted as #SistoryLessons newsletter March 15, 2026 It's hard not to feel horrified, overwhelmed, and deeply discouraged by the unending onslaught of criminal activity and human rights violations foisted...
Trailblazers of the Silver Screen Originally published as #SistoryLessons newsletter on March 1, 2016 In just a couple of weeks, on March 15, the film industry gathers for the 98th Annual Academy Awards. I'm excited to...
My People WILL Read: Black Women Educators Who Defied Illiteracy Laws Originally posted in the #SistoryLessons newsletter on February 15, 2026 It should be a surprise to no one that literacy, and lack to it, has played an intrinsic role...
Black History @ 100: Four She-Roes Who Refused to Wait A Short History of Black History Month One hundred years ago, in February 1926, historian Carter G. Woodson launched the first Negro History Week. Born in Virginia to formerly enslaved parents on...
