August 2018 - BlackHer.us

On Using Data to Inform the Experiences of Black Women: An Interview with Valerie Wilson

by Jocelyn Harmon | Aug 31, 2018 | Our Sheroes

Building our personal, economic, and political power by getting educated, inspired, and taking action for progressive change – that’s what we’re all about at BlackHer! This week we were thrilled to catch up with Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race,...

Black Women and Belonging

by Angela Dorn | Aug 28, 2018 | Articles

Claudine Gay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Learning From the Best and the Brightest I’m a Harvard graduate. I spent four great years walking through Harvard Yard, and through the University’s hallowed halls. Almost every moment of my college...

N.K. Jemisin’s Acceptance Speech for Best Novel is EVERYTHING

by Jocelyn Harmon | Aug 27, 2018 | Videos

N.K. Jemisin made history this weekend when she won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, “perhaps the highest honor for science-fiction and fantasy novels,” for the THIRD time in a row! I’ll be honest, I’m not much of a sci-fi fan but that’s...

Because Opportunity, Not Luck Should be the Path Out of Poverty: An Interview with Lori Lightfoot

by Angela Dorn | Aug 24, 2018 | Our Sheroes

Building our personal, economic, and political power by getting educated and organized and taking action for progressive change, that’s what we’re all about at BlackHer! This week we were thrilled to catch up with Lori Lightfoot, candidate for Mayor of the Windy City...

Black Women by the Numbers

by Jocelyn Harmon | Aug 22, 2018 | Articles

Dear Readers, As we hope you can tell, Angela and I built BlackHer because we are REALLY committed to setting the record straight about Black women in the U.S. As the late Aretha Franklin would say, “All we’re asking for is a little respect.” We think that starts by...