Janell Hobson

Black Feminist in Public: Author of Freeing Black Girls and Loving Black Boys Tamura Lomax in Revolutionary Mothering During Troubled Times

In new book The Conjuring of America, professor Lindsey Stewart explores how Black women used magic, medicine and traditions in American culture.

A viral American Eagle ad pits Sydney Sweeney against Beyonce, revives eugenicist undertones and reignites questions about beauty in America.

Artist Autumn Breon’s Requiem for Reproductive Freedom: Honoring Black Women's Pain and Adriana Smith Through Performance Art

"Langston Hughes called [A’Lelia Walker] the 'Joy Goddess' of Harlem's 1920s," said A’Lelia Bundles, great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker and author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, out June 11. "Now, her life was not always happy. But I think his idea was that she used her wealth, her influence and her homes to create a joyful space and a welcoming space for a wide range of people."

Documenting Harriet Tubman’s Leadership: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River Raid

A new resource for educators and students, this syllabus explores why feminist leadership still eludes the U.S.—and how we teach toward it.

From Angela Bassett in Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, to Kamala Harris, Could Film and TV Help Make a Black Woman President Possible?

The Oscars reward women—especially Black women—who package their pain into performances of vulnerability, including Anora and The Substance.

Patriotic Ironies in Pop Culture: 'The Six Triple Eight,' Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé Challenge the American Myth