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Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History

Gloria Richardson passed away on July 15, 2021, at the age of 99. Tributes have already poured in for the

In late 1892, a railroad operator approached activist-journalist Ida B. Wells to inquire why the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee, had been

In the wake of the January 6 coup attempt on Congress, CNN reported on a University of Illinois Cline Center

When our work began in December 2018, we sought to confront misinformation and erasure surrounding the “riot” of May 11-12,

We still have far too few histories of Black journalists. Even as biographers have written on Alex Haley, Ethel Payne,