Nigerian braid artist, body painter, and educator, Nneka Gigi, explores how Black women in the United States and in Africa and in the African Diaspora are maintaining their natural hair during COVID-19.
Read More
For Mother’s Day, Black Women Radicals’ Executive Director, Jaimee Swift, interviews her mother, Aretha Swift, an advocate and chronic kidney disease survivor on life, faith, and resilience.
Read More
Check out this reading list from our Zoom event, “Black Feminist Perspectives on COVID-19.”
Read More
Every first Thursday of the month, Black Women Radicals will host “Afrekete Convos”, an IG Live series that highlights and uplifts Black women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming activists, artists, and changemakers around the world. This series is in honor of and inspired by the self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” that was and is Audre Lorde.
Read More
As a pioneering poet, activist, essayist, and educator, Dr. Cheryl Clarke has and continues to center and uplift radical Black lesbian feminist literature and organizing. We honor her.
Read More
Black Women Radicals’ Blog, “Voices in Movement,” welcomes you to engage with our March 2020 theme, Sankofa: Honoring Our Black Feminist Pioneers.
Read More
As a pioneering activist, organizer, and alumnus of Howard University, Annette “Chi” Hughes (she/her/hers) paved a formidable legacy for LGBTQ+ student-activists at Howard and at other historically Black colleges and universities, as the co-founder of the first openly LGBTQ+ student organization at any HBCU.
Read More