Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

Gloria Steinem on the role of women of color in the suffrage movement Feminist writer, author and activist Gloria Steinem said that Black ... full century since the ratification of the 19th ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born ... prominence as a writer for black church newspapers, Wells took part ...