Photo of jazz singer Carmen McCrae at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1980. Photo by Michael Wilderman, jazzvisionsphotos.com

“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread — without it, it's flat.”
#CarmenMcRae #botd
April 8, 1920 –
November 10, 1994
American jazz singer.One of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century.

#Jazz #musicsky
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#WomensHistory
#SheShed

A Higher Standard: Patricia Roberts Harris Patricia Roberts Harris is one of those quiet warriors whose life stands as a testament to excellence, tenacity, and commitment to change.

"Patricia Roberts Harris is one of those quiet warriors whose life stands as a testament to excellence, tenacity, and commitment to change."

The first Black woman appointed as ambassador & the first appointed to a Cabinet post.

Great article 👇

#BlackWomensHistory

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Honoring International Black Women’s History Day ✨

From Shirley Chisholm to Coretta Scott King to Eleanor Holmes Norton—this legacy is power, persistence, and purpose.

We stand on their shoulders as we organize, build, and rise together.

#BlackWomensHistory #WinWithBlackWomen #LegacyAndPower

Mark Anthony Neal. The self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity' (@dukepress.bsky.social) #BlackWomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
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Bianca Williams joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2018)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gEG... #BlackWomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

The self-described queer Black troublemaker and Black feminist love evangelist, Alexis Pauline Gumbs joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity' (@dukepress.bsky.social)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmM... #BlackWomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

Fannie Lou Hamer

Let's talk Fannie Lou Hamer. She's an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and leader of the civil rights movement. Hamer died on March 14, 1977, aged 59, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

#blackwomenshistory

#BlackHistory
#BlackWomensHistory

Historian Vanessa M. Holden visited #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book, 'Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGeQ...

#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory
@illinoispress.bsky.social

Before there was Elvis's "Hound Dog", there was "Big Mama" Thornton's "Hound Dog"

DJ Lynnée Denise on the Legacy of Rock 'n Roll Pioneer Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
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#LeftOfBlack
#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory

"Entering your soft era does not mean forgetting what you survived.
It means finally receiving what you were due." DDJ #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackWomensHistory

Erica Edwards joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire' (@nyupress.bsky.social)

#WomensHistoryMonth
#BlackWomensHistory
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Emeline King, 1983 Copyright Disclaimer: - Under section 107 of the copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for FAIR USE for purpose such a as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statues that might otherwise be infringing. Non- Profit, educational or personal use of photographs, videos, and other visual content tips the balance in favor of FAIR USE.

Emeline King Copyright Disclaimer: - Under section 107 of the copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for FAIR USE for purpose such a as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statues that might otherwise be infringing. Non- Profit, educational or personal use of photographs, videos, and other visual content tips the balance in favor of FAIR USE.

Automotive designer Emeline King (born 1957) became the first Black Woman Automotive Designer for Ford Motor Company. Her most notable work is the creation and interior design of the 1994 Mustang.

#BlackHerstory
#BlackWomensHistory
#BlackHistory
#BlackHistoryFacts
#automotivedesigner

Born to enslaved parents in Orange, Virginia, Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) pioneered advocacy for Black women’s rights. Burroughs lived in Louisville from 1898 to 1909 before opening the National Training School for Women in Washington.

#BlackWomensHistory #CivilRightsActivist #WomenEducators

The Godmother of Rock and Roll The remarkable story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a forgotten founder of rock and roll.

Delano Lopez tells the remarkable story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a forgotten founder of rock and roll.

#BlackHistory #BlackWomensHistory

Molly Williams was the first known Woman firefighter and Black firefighter in America.

#blackherstory
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#blackhistory
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#blacksky

Mary McLeod Bethune - Picturing Black History Black Women and the Winning of World War II

Today is Mary McLeod Bethune 150th Birthday. Ashley Robertson Preston discusses her legacy and contributions to the war effort during #WWII on Picturing Black History.

#BlackWomensHistory #BlackHistory #WomensHistory

Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy edited by Erica Ciallela and Philip S. Palmer

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters by Deborah Parker

#booksky for #womenshistory #blackwomenshistory #librarians & #history
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Great essay-review on two significant new books on Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's librarian & first director of the Morgan Library & Museum. By Francesa Wade, author of Square Haunting.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

New blog post featuring a letter on women's suffrage published in The Progress, an African American newspaper in Omaha, NE, by Rev. Annie Woodbey (1855-1901). #nebraska #suffrage #blackwomenshistory #politicalthought #blackpolitics #history

Because housewives are also part of history. And sometimes they aren’t just housewives. #WomensHistory #BlackWomensHistory #WomenInHistory

Remembering Alice Walker’s The Color Purple - Picturing Black History Alice Walker’s act of generosity in writing The Color Purple forever revolutionized Black women’s literature.

Lorna Closeil discusses the legacy of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

#BlackHistory #AliceWalker #TheColorPurple #BlackWomensHistory

Black Kos: #BlackWomensHistory. We will not be erased. How much Black Women’s History do you know? Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez Every year, when we move from Black History Month into Women’s History Month I’ve been aware, as a Black ...

#BlackWomensHistory. We will not be erased

Crowning Miss Parkridge: Black Leisure in Southern California The Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles. Excluded from leisure spaces like Catalina Island or Griffith Park, places like...

Dustin Meier looks examines how the Parkridge Country Club demonstrated the fragile promise of African American recreational space in 1920s Los Angeles

#BlackHistory #BlackWomensHistory #BlackJoy

Black Kos: #BlackWomensHistory. We will not be erased. How much Black Women’s History do you know? Every year, when we move from Black History Month into Women’s History Month I’ve been aware, as a Black woman that fairly often our history falls ...

Black Kos: #BlackWomensHistory. We will not be erased.
by @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social @dopper0189.bsky.social & @justiceputnam.bsky.social

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Black Kos: #BlackWomensHistory. We will not be erased. How much Black Women’s History do you know? Every year, when we move from Black History Month into Women’s History Month I’ve been aware, as a Black woman that fairly often our history falls ...

Black Kos: #BlackWomensHistory. We will not be erased.
Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This ex-slave pretended to be a man and served in the Army Cathay Williams was the only documented female buffalo soldier. From 1866 to 1868, an uneducated, illiterate former slave managed to deceive her fellow soldiers, officers and post medical personnel.

I'd watch this movie #CathayWilliams #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackWomensHistory #BlackMilitaryHistory

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Marching Mothers - Picturing Black History Neither wind nor rain could stop a band of Ohio mothers from securing the education their children deserved. While Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was supposed to have ended school segregation, thi...

Jessica Viñas-Nelson describes how neither wind nor rain could stop a band of Black mothers in Ohio from securing the education their children deserved during the 1950s.

#BlackWomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

PART 6: #WomensHistoryMonth Flo-Jo inspired countless girls and women, including Beyonce, Serena Williams, and Sha'Carri Richardson. She did it all as a disabled woman, making her more of an icon.

#Disabled #DisabilitySky #DisabilityPride #ChronicIllness #spoonie #BlackHistory #BlackWomensHistory

Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Racial Uplift, and the Divine Nine The Influential Life of Norma Elizabeth Boyd, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

Casarae Abdul-Ghani remembers the influential life of Norma Elizabeth Boyd, a founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

#BlackWomensHistory #BlackHistory #InternationalWomensDay

A Mother's Power Mamie Mobley-Till never imagined that her son's, Emmett Till, 1955 trip to family in the Mississippi Delta would result in her son’s untimely death, yet she turned her grief into action, which ultimat...

Sierra Phillips highlights the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley.

#BlackWomensHistory #BlackHistory #EmmettTill