Black artists, writers, and geniuses have been erased, stolen from, and written out of history before. Emilia Bassano may be one of the most overlooked examples.
What if one of the greatest literary voices of the English Renaissance belonged not to the man history celebrates, but to a Black woman whose identity was buried beneath someone else's name?
This isn't just about Shakespeare. It's about who gets remembered, who gets erased, and how history has too often rewarded th