#SistoryLessons Blog

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to the great Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most important activists of the Civil Rights Movement. History lessons for Black women, BIPOC women, racial justice allies and DEI...

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to a noteworthy abolitionist and educational and feminist icon: Mary Church Terrell.

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to the last sovereign monarch of Hawai'i,  Lili’uokalani, a composer, author, and the only Queen Regnant (woman ruling as a “king” and not just a spouse). Learn...

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to two incredible women who made an influence in the arts and the labor movement: Sono Osato and Luisa Moreno.   

California's first Black woman millionaire, Mary Ellen Pleasant was born a slave on August 19 (1812 or 1814). Bought and freed by abolitionists, she grew up as a bonded servant, passing...

One afternoon, during a simple little five-minute phone-app meditation, a tiny voice in my head rasped: Be Brave. You're in deep, just walk through it, brave step by brave step, like a...