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Women of the nation's founding sitting next to each other in front of the Declaration of Independence

America's Founding Feminists: Rewriting America’s Origin Story

On America’s 250th anniversary, Ms.’ "Founding Feminists" series centers the women whose words, labor and resistance built—and keep rebuilding—democracy.

by Janell Hobson via Ms. Magazine on March 2, 2026

Collage of various black women mentioned within the article.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River Raid

Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.

by Edda Fields-Black, Janell Hobson via Ms. Magazine on June 2, 2025

Colorful portrait collage of Harriet Tubman with stars in the background

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project

The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project explores the meaning of freedom through the example of one extraordinary life.

by Janell Hobson via Ms. Magazine on February 1, 2022

Jennifer L. Morgan portrayed beside her book

Black Feminist in Public: Jennifer L. Morgan Reckons with Slavery

On the intersectionality of enslaved women and common misunderstandings about slavery.

by Janell Hobson, Jennifer L. Morgan via Ms. Magazine on June 17, 2021

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