#blackwomenwriters

Jun 14, 20212 min read

Writing Is The Freedom I Didn't Know I Needed

It’s a Sunday morning. I’m drinking coffee from one of my infamous mugs, enjoying the sun beaming through the window, and waiting for...

Mar 25, 20212 min read

I’m thankful that I have never had to be someone else, in order to have my writing voice heard. As a society, we still have a way to go...

Feb 21, 20213 min read

In the 1920’s, creative and intellectual life thrived within African American communities in the North and Midwest, but nowhere more so...

Sep 19, 20182 min read

Alice Allison Dunnigan, the daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper, dreamed of becoming a journalist. She fought through segregation and...

Sep 12, 20182 min read

In Carlene Hatcher Polite’s 1967 novel, “The Flagellants”, the main character describes her love affair with a Black poet as “irrevocable...