Category: Women

  • Sage Steele Opens Up About Being A Biracial Woman In Sports Media The Huffington Post 2015-01-21 Justin Block, Associate Sports Editor Juliet Spies-Gans, Editorial Fellow, HuffPost Joe Scarnici via Getty Images Sage Steele speaks onstage at the 2013 espnW: Women + Sports Summit at St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort on Oct. 9, 2013, in Dana…

  • This piece is a very personal piece for me and does not intend to put over any specific political line; it does not intend to educate, but I hope it will make people think.

  • Passion – Blackwomen’s Creativity: an interview with Maud Sulter Spare Rib Magazine Issue 220 (February 1991) pages 6-8 Ardentia Verba An Interview with Maud Suiter In 1977 Maud Suiter stepped on a train from Glasgow to London and began her current journey into the interior of Blackwomen’s Creativity. She didn’t know at the time that…

  • She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Balzer + Bray (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2010-10-19 32 pages 8.5 in (w) x 11 in (h) x 0.25 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780061349201 eBook ISBN: 9780062184801 Audrey Vernick Illustrated by Don Tate Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just…

  • UNF professor explores the impact of skin tone on the everyday lives of African-American women The Florida Times-Union 2016-01-18 Rhema Thompson JeffriAnne Wilder always knew African-Americans came in many shades. She saw it in her own family, from her light-skinned older sister to her two dark-skinned brothers. Her complexion fell somewhere in the middle. “I…

  • Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century Praeger October 2015 198 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4408-3109-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4408-3110-2 JeffriAnne Wilder, Associate Professor of Sociology University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida Colorism continues to impact women of African descent in a new generation and century. This book offers an in-depth…

  • Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) January 1998 298 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57886-001-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4617-0708-0 James Overmyer, Member Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no…

  • Photographing Multiracial Families In Scotland: Celebrating mothers, daughters and diversity through portraits Medium for Pixel Magazine 2015-12-17 Interview by Emily von Hoffmann and Polarr Image courtesy of Kim Simpson. Portrait photographer Kim Simpson began her Exottish project after her daughter, who is of mixed heritage, experienced a series of racial insults in her primary school…

  • Maud Sulter The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2008-03-21 Artist and writer; Born September 19, 1960; Died February 27, 2008. MAUD Sulter, who has died after a long illness aged 47, was an extraordinarily gifted visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in Glasgow, of Scots and Ghanaian descent: in her poem…

  • Staceyann Chin Worries About Money, and Selling Out The New York Times 2016-01-14 Laura Collins-Hughes The day she traded in her little two-door convertible for a crossover S.U.V. — “a mom car,” she calls it — the performance poet Staceyann Chin went home and cried. It wasn’t enough that pregnancy had forever altered her body.…