The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

For the literary insider. Did you know Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Margo Jefferson, and other Black women writers were a part of a group known as The Sisterhood? It all began after a gathering in February 1977; the group then went on to meet monthly for the next two years, discussing literature and liberation. They championed each other’s work and ultimately changed the face of writing and institutions in the US. The group was short-lived—disbanding just over two years later in 1979—but its influence is still felt in literary circles and beyond today.