In an interview with the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago, Gerda Lerner said, "When I started working on women’s history about 30 years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think women had a history worth knowing." Read More
"...you can no more separate Cool from Blackness than you can separate Hula from Hawaiians, or Yoga from Indians, or French cuisine from the French. "
Author Rebecca Walker talks with Lambda about her latest edited collection, Black Cool: A Thousand Streams of Blackness, the appropriation of Blackness, and the African cosmology of cool. Read More
There are approximately 39 million people who check “Black or African-American” on their Census forms. Nearly sixty percent of those...
“There is queer activism in the African diaspora and wherever that movement is, there is always cultural production.” I was...
Lambda Award Finalist “I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am...


