Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and

This landmark work first published 20 years ago helped establish the field of African-American womanist theology. It is widely regarded as a classic text in the

Winner of the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the 2020 Summersell Prize, a 2020 PROSE Award, and a Plutarch Award finalist “The w

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism.

“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect