Emily Rapp Black is an American nonfiction writer and essayist responsible for two memoirs, Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World. A former Fulbright scholar and James A.

For hundreds of years, America’s public education system has left much of African American history out of the curricula. But the establishment of Black studies departments and programs in colleges and ...

That was my feminist catchphrase from the 1980s. I discovered it somewhere on TV, and I found it useful in my everyday life. In my family, the patriarchy was obvious and tolerated. My father sat at ...