Black Women Deserve a Radical Retelling of Now

There is a way we tell history that leaves Black women stranded.

White people tell the story of women’s suffrage in America without the influence of Black women. The right to vote was earned, they say, through the tireless efforts of suffragettes, whose calls for the eugenics of Black women and insistence on the supremacy of whiteness go unmentioned. Black people tell the story of…