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The High Costs of Dirt-Cheap Fast Fashion

It is humans who cut the fabric, and humans who work tirelessly at sewing machines. And humans can only work so fast.

Aja Barber

10/08/21 9:30AM

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The Larger than Life Legend of the Regal Blueswoman

People who say Bessie Smith would have said, “I went to see the Empress,” and everybody would have known who they…

Jackie Kay

9/30/21 10:00AM

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The Ugly Necklace That Helped Bring Down Marie Antoinette

The backstory on the scandal that helped sink the French monarchy, in this excerpt from In the Shadow of the Empress

Nancy Goldstone

9/24/21 9:35AM

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Before Serums, Women Had Radium

Made with “ACTUAL RADIUM not ‘Radio-Active Water’”!

Lucy Jane Santos

7/09/21 9:30AM

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A Testament to the Horrors of Slavery & the Perseverance of Black Women, Rendered in Needle and Thread

How a hand-embroidered seed sack tells the intergenerational story of Black women surviving in America

Tiya Miles

6/14/21 10:30AM

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The High Costs of Dirt-Cheap Fast Fashion

The Larger than Life Legend of the Regal Blueswoman

The Ugly Necklace That Helped Bring Down Marie Antoinette

Before Serums, Women Had Radium

A Testament to the Horrors of Slavery & the Perseverance of Black Women, Rendered in Needle and Thread