Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California
Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states
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Black history
Afrofuturism in the Classroom
The groundbreaking Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler (2019), edited by Tarshia Stanley, features a powerful essay by my colleague
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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry
“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb Those
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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change
Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at
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The History of Black Women and Violence
Anti-blackness, including the violent events our society typically invokes when reflecting on racism, often centers on the violence inflicted on
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