Julia: When Prime Time Met Diahann Carroll
“Julia” made history by putting a Black professional woman at the center of a network comedy. It also triggered a fierce debate: was it liberation, or a carefully lit detour ar
Thirty Thousand Feet, and Still Segregated
Ruth Carol Taylor’s six months in the cabin exposed how airlines sold modernity while enforcing an old order—until one nurse from upstate New York insisted on being seen.
The Woman Called Mahogany
In 1975, Diana Ross turned a Hollywood melodrama into a fashion manifesto—one that still teaches America what Black ambition looks like when it refuses to whisper.
She Would Not Flinch
Gloria Richardson Dandridge led a local uprising on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that forced Washington to negotiate—and forced the movement to confront what “nonviolence” coul