black women
Nzadi Keita’s poems about a “first gen North-born” Black woman
Keita has written a stunning collection about growing up in a working-class Black family in 1960s Philadelphia.
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
Taking womanist theology to the beauty shop
“My mama was womanist. My grandma is womanist. Just because they don’t have the language or the identifier doesn’t make them less womanist.”
Episode 15: Public theologian Christena Cleveland, author of God is a Black Woman
A conversation with public theologian Christena Cleveland about whitemalegod, fatherskygod, her pilgrimage in France, and more
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
Tressie McMillan Cottom asks who black women’s voices are for
Cottom interrogates her own story loudly enough for others to hear themselves in it.
Black women’s faith, black women’s flourishing
Womanist theology proclaims a future beyond the strongholds of racism, sexism, and injustice.
The black activist women of 100 years ago
Amy Jacques Garvey, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, and the “back to Africa” movement
The story of one Ethiopian woman—and of Christianity's encounter with modernity
Yetemegnu Mekonnen lived faithfully in turbulent times.
Environmental injustice and who it hurts the most
Melanie Harris claims that abuse of the earth parallels the injustices faced by women of color.
How Michelle Obama subverted respectability politics with a ponytail
If you weren't looking for it, you might have missed her act of resistance at Trump's inauguration.
A lineage of black female scholars
Black women's contributions continue to be rendered invisible. Brittney Cooper offers a critical intervention.