Sublime

At the very moment she uttered those words, Black people were facing rampant acts of white supremacist violence and terror. From the period of 1882 to 1968, an estimated 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States, with Black people accounting for more than 70 percent of the victims.93

Those who supported forced sterilization devalued Black life, but they also hoped to profit from Black women’s suffering in whatever form it took. White medical professionals and staff stood to financially profit when completing forced sterilizations. By one estimate, Fannie Lou Hamer’s initial procedure to remove a small tumor would have grossed

Up until very recently, government-funded research has been conducted almost exclusively by, on, and for white men. It was only in 1993 that Congress passed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act, a law requiring that women and minorities be included in clinical trials funded by the federal government’s National Institutes of Health.

the end, regardless of a Black woman’s marriage status or the specific circumstances surrounding her pregnancy, they were vulnerable to state-sanctioned violence at the hands of racist white doctors and complicit hospital workers who deemed impoverished Black women “unfit” for reproduction.

white men and Native women together,

Bras-Coupé was an African king enslaved in New Orleans. He was, according to the stories, striking and heroic. He danced in Congo Square, with many other enslaved people, on weekends. And everyone, from all points on the color line, admired his grace and beauty. But once he fled the plantation, his captivating movement and dignified posture were

Nearly half of colonial New Englanders’ wealth would come from sugar grown by West Indian slaves.