#black feminism

Medium/Screenshot What you are about to read about is (allegedly) not a defense of Nate Parker. Again, the essay you are about to read about is (allegedly) not a defense of Nate Parker. And yet, that is the man writer Feathers, a black woman, chose...  

The bravery of combining your passion with your career is no small feat — just ask Chrishon Lampley of Love Cork Screw. The Chicago raised wine-lover turned her passion into a business, after a flooding of a bar she then co-owned forced her to shutter operations in 2011. With that part of her life

No matter the outcome of the presidential election in November, history will remember Hillary Clinton as the first woman to get to the top of a ticket for a major party. It is a tremendous feat.In Philadelphia last week, the Democratic National Convention was a celebration of her achievement. The

A few weeks ago, I boarded a flight to London from Boston. At the end of April, I'd been accepted into a weeklong creative writing workshop for Black writers at the University of Oxford. For months I've struggled with not feeling like my fullest creative self, and I looked forward to this writing

On Saturday, Beyoncé’s new visual album Lemonade was released on HBO. I think the whole world was surprised as the generally private artist opened her soul and let us all peer into the intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, accountability, reformation, forgiveness, resurrection, and ...