The first thing that caught my eye in the box on the auction table was a small folded sack with the words “Georgia Cured Bacon” in faded print. I don’t consume pork but I am…
Tag: african american women
Being black and a WAC in World War II
Posted in African American women, and Military
The story behind the play was more intriguing than the play itself. That’s what I determined after watching a very small cast tell the story of two black women who refused the indignity of scrubbing…
African American natural hair as art
Posted in African American women, Art, and Hair
Sonya Clark is a fiber artist who uses her own hair as her medium. She weaves human hair – black women’s natural hair – onto canvases, the backs of chairs, into jewelry and even mixing it…
I had never heard of the actress Theresa Harris, who appeared in more than 80 movies from 1929 to 1958. I was introduced to a woman like her this weekend in an Off-Broadway show called “By…
Postcards of black women with hats
Posted in Black history, Clothing, Photos, Postcards, and Style
In the auction catalog, the description of the postcards sounded a lot like “Crowns,” a book of photographs about black women and their love affair with hats: “Group of 275 real photo post cards of African…
Black women at center stage
Posted in African American women, and Black history
For a minute at auction last weekend, I thought it was African American Women Month, not Black History Month. For there were four conspicuous images of black women: a photograph, an oil painting, a poster and a…