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The Women of Color Quilters Network (WCQN) was founded in 1986 by Carolyn L. Mazloomi. For many years in the early 1980s, Mazloomi had tried unsuccessfully to expand her circle of African American quilters. She eventually placed an advertisement in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine requesting correspondence with other quilters who shared this ...
The deal placed the ownership of the 34-year-old Essence magazine, one of the United States' leading magazines for women of color, under widespread ownership, rather than black ownership. [8] In January 2018, the magazine returned to a fully black-owned publication after its acquisition by Richelieu Dennis, the founder of Sundial Brands. [9]
Concerned that the magazine would be lost due to the lack of direction in the national organization, DOB president Rita LaPorte took possession of the 3,800-member mailing list for The Ladder (of which there were only two copies, the subject of which was an annual article to assure women that their names were safe) to Reno without the knowledge ...
Compared to 2023 (61.7%) and 2022 (58.8%), there was a decrease in nominations for women of color in 2024 (36.6%). 2024 was on par with 2013 (33.3%) in terms of the percentage of nominations for ...
Azalea: A Magazine by Third World Lesbians was named after the hardy flower which blooms in spring. Azalea founders Joan Gibbs, Robin Christian, and Linda Brown formed in 1974, growing out of the Black Lesbian Caucus of the New York City Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). [5] At the time there were no periodicals publishing stories by women of color.
Bringing those voices to the table is crucial, because women, and especially women of color, are substantially underrepresented in corporate-leadership positions—only four S&P 500 CEOs are women ...
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! North Dakota's abortion ban was overturned and Arizona's was repealed, Nasdaq chair and CEO Adena Friedman takes on fraud, and women of color win big at the Emmys ...
In her essay "A Press of our Own: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press", founder Barbara Smith describes the beginnings of the press this way: "In October 1980, Audre Lorde said to me during a phone conversation, 'We really need to do something about publishing.'" [6] Smith recounts how "it was at that meeting that Kitchen Table: Women of Color ...