Ashley Farmer

The Power of Dr. Gwendolyn Patton’s Autobiography

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1967, Gwen Patton was driving to Montgomery, Alabama when her car started to rattle and stutter. She pulled over

The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)

April 2, 2019March 31, 2019 Ashley Farmer #NationWithinANation, Activism, black feminism, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power, black protest, Black women, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement

February 28, 2019March 9, 2019 Ashley Farmer #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, africa, African Diaspora, Audley Moore, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black Leaders, Black Marxism, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black political thought, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Communist Party, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Marxism, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, reparations, slavery

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of

Top 10 of 2018 – #5 – Archiving While Black

December 24, 2018January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number

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