“Abolition of Every Possibility of Oppression”: The Black Women’s United Front
On January 25, 1975, over five hundred activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan to discuss the position of women in the
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Black Feminism
Black Women Athletes, Protest, and Politics: An Interview with Amira Rose Davis
The country is now recognizing black athletes as protest leaders and the sports field as a viable space for resistance and
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Angela Davis and the Black Radical Tradition in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Over the past few days, hundreds of people joined Black Studies at the University of Texas for our first international
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Beyond Négritude: Francophone African Women’s Pan-Africanism
*This is the fourth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.
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The Mundane and Extraordinary Aspects of Black Women’s History: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross
This month I interviewed Kali Nicole Gross about her new book, Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso (Oxford University Press, 2016). Dr. Gross is
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