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Black women have higher self-confidence and self-esteem than any group of women, according to a survey by Glamour and L’Oreal Paris, along with Dr. Jean Twenge, Ph.D., a researcher on the effects of race and self-confidence. Racism and discrimination haven’t created a downturn in how Black women view themselves. [36]
Unity Dow. As Botswana's first female High Court judge, Unity Dow has fought both domestically and internationally for women’s rights and human rights. In 1992, Dow challenged the national law that prohibited Botswanan women married to non-citizens from conferring nationality to their children, and won. Dow is also known for her ruling as a ...
A Smithsonian magazine special report. At the Smithsonian | August 29, 2022. These Black Women Changed America. Thirty years ago, photographer Brian Lanker made indelible images of historical ...
Black feminism, political and social movement that focuses on the multidimensional aspects of the oppression of Black women in the United States and other countries. As a field of study, Black feminism differs from mainstream feminism in that it seeks to understand the injustices affecting the daily lives of Black women; it is also distinguished by a long-standing emphasis on intersectionality ...
In the US, the stories of a select few Black women — Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, to name a few — seem to circulate on a regular rotation in school classrooms, inspirational calendars and social media memes. While these women’s contributions to history are incredibly important, there are countless ...
Nov. 11, 2023. On June 24, 1983, Byllye Avery welcomed busloads of Black women to the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta. She was in a state of disbelief. The women had traveled from...
Four decades ago, nearly 2,000 Black women converged on Atlanta for a conference at Spelman College. As Dara Mathis recently reported for Headway, The New York Times’s initiative covering the ...
