Did you know that California is named after a fictional Black woman? Montalvo, a Spanish writer from the early sixteenth century, wrote a famous epic tale about Christians fighting against Muslims who were assisted by a warrior Queen named Calafia, her Black women warriors, and her fierce griffins. In Montalvo’s fictional world, Queen Calafia is…
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How to Get Black Action Figures
Back in the 1980s, Yla Eason saw the problem with the absence of Black toys and she did the work of creating Olmec Toys so that our kids could at least have some toy that looked like them. A few decades later, you can get the impression that toy companies have taken great strides and…