BlaqueAdemics™ / On Women

Blaque / On Women: Narratives By and About African American Women

Welcome to On Women!

This web site dedicated to the history and writings by and about African women throughout the Disapora. This site contains various links to other sites, essays, poetry, literature, and commentary about the lives of African women. It celebrates the lives and history of Black women who write, act, and speak against Western stereotypes of who they are, where they have been, and the history they have made.

The background of this pages is a collague of powerful African women whose lives have made history, internationally, nationally, and regionally, such as Lola McCracken, a first generation Black Indian woman from South Carolina; Octavia Butler, the first well-known African American woman to write science fiction with a social purpose; Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote one of the most famous plays canonized in Black Drama, A Raisen in the Sun; Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, who penned prize winning American novels on the Black Female Experience (Beloved and The Color Purple); Clara Virginia Carter, known for her philanthropy and familial dedication; Maria Stewart, Angela Davis, Ida B. Wells, and Harriet Tubman, all activists for the civil rights of Black people during their respective eras; Sara Bartman, Saartjie Baartman, a 19th century African women exploited, murdered, and put on display until 2001 because of the shape of her physicality; and Annie Heitt, a woman known for her strong religious beliefs, and who gave birth to over a dozen Black Indian children in Virginia at the turn of the 20th century.

These women are but a sample of the strong African women represented on this page. Read, learn, enjoy, and respect the lives of the African women presented.

Saartjie Baartman (1789-1815)

Clara Virginia Carter (1916-2004)

Toni Morrison (1931- )

Angela Davis (1944- )

Ida B. Wells (1862-1961)

Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

Octavia Butler (1947-2006)

Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913)

Harriet Wilson (1827-1863)

Lani Guinier (1950- )

Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

Marion Anderson (1897-1993)