by Richa Parikh | Apr 12, 2021 | Racial Healing
A year after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, after too many protests, hate crimes and unchanged policies, how do we make sense of the year 2020? Beyond the brute interruption to our society, COVID-19 was a wake-up call to most...
by Richa Parikh | Mar 12, 2021 | Social Change
The first women’s suffrage movement in 1848, beginning with the Seneca Falls Convention, did not involve Black women. Black women were rejected from participating. Suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony infamously said, “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will...
by Richa Parikh | Feb 18, 2021 | Social Change
The question feels redundant to me, yet it’s a question that many Americans still quietly ponder. In 1926, Carter G. Woodson developed Negro History Week because he believed Black Americans should know their past in order to intelligently participate in the all levels...
