ABOUT

Evette Dionne, known across the internet as @freeblackgirl, is a journalist, pop culture critic, and magazine editor. She’s the National Book Award-nominated and Coretta Scott King honor author of Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box (Viking), a middle-grade nonfiction book about Black women suffragists. Presently, she’s the executive editor at YES! Media and a columnist for MSNBC.