#SistoryLessons Blog

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...

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to two great jazz and blues singers, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to a great poet, autobiographer, memoirist, and civil rights activist, singer, and dancer—an American Renaissance woman, Maya Angelou. History lessons for Black women, BIPOC women, racial...

Brave Sis #SistoryLesson pays tribute to a LGBTQIA_ icon, Sylvia Rivera. History lessons for Black women, BIPOC women, racial justice allies and DEI champions! Celebrate influential women who changed the world.