How Black washerwomen in the South became pioneers of American labor. April 17, 2022. 12 min. Washerwomen, El Paso, Tex., circa 1897.

Black washerwomen set the terms of their employment from the very first moment of emancipation. They refused to wash clothes on holidays. People wanted them to wash multiple loads in a week, ...

In 2017, playwright Kelundra Smith first learned about the Atlanta 1881 Washerwomen’s Strike by way of a small panel in an enormous, centuries-spanning exhibit at the National Museum of African ...

In a soaring speech in Atlanta, she made one of the strongest appeals to black voters of any Democratic White House hopeful during the 2020 primary. Sign in or Subscribe See Offers.

Dr. D.L. Henderson uncovers the untold stories of Black individuals buried in Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery.

Black Romance Novelists Talk Love In Difficult Times : Code Switch Too often, ... The Washerwomen's War, a novella by Piper Huguley published in The Daughters of War anthology.