Cars for Freedom: SNCC and the Sojourner Motor Fleet
On a late summer night in 1964, a small plane landed on a desolate airstrip outside Greenwood, Mississippi, carrying two
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Author: Travis Wright
Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature
Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the
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African American Women on the American Railroad
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert examines African American women’s engagement with the railroad
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Translating Global Antiblackness: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Translating Blackness comes from a very personal place—from my
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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt
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