Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes
September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of
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Black Feminism
Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects
An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,
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Remembering Afro-German Intellectual May Ayim
It has been almost twenty-one years since Black German activist, educator, writer, and public intellectual May Ayim died on August
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“The Revival: Women and The Word”: A New Film on Queer Women of Color
This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.
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New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter
The 1830s was the high-tide of Jacksonianism, an era many historians consider the nadir of early American history. Although universal
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