So March is Women's Month (Part Two)

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Another link dump with the rest of Black Herstory series by Dairy of an Anxious Black Woman

Nikki Giovanni: Poetess, Black Activist, Professor at Virginia Tech

Katherine Dunham: Anthropologist, Dancer, Choreographer

Margaret Garner: A Runaway Slave who, when pursued by slave cathcers, tried to kill her family to avoid their return to slavery

African Queens

Drana, Delia, Celia:Some slave women worth remembering

Billie Holiday:Singer of the blues

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield:The First Black Opera Singer

Marie-Joseph Angelique:Canadian Slavery and the burning of Old Montreal

Daughters of the Dust

Claudia Jones: Trinidadian-born Marxist and Feminist

Lorna Simpson: Photographer

Black Feminist legacies: From the Past to the Now, From here, to abroad

Who speaks for Sally Hemmings?

Audre Lourde:Feminist, Queer, Poetess, Black Activist