Activist Angelina Grimké’s writings on the devaluing of Black mothers and babies hold lessons for today

Born in 1880, writer and civil rights activist Angelina Weld Grimké focused much of her writing on the suffering of slaves and how those sufferings had a deeply negative impact on Black motherhood. The effects of the eugenics and discrimination faced by Black Americans during the days of slavery and after have sadly never fully disappeared … Continue reading Activist Angelina Grimké’s writings on the devaluing of Black mothers and babies hold lessons for today