Free People of Color

The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass

The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

Throughout the Antebellum era, the institution of slavery worked to strip Black women of their humanity and human rights and

This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” In today’s post,