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Portraits of Black Womanhood

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle

In his recent post “African American and the Classics: An Introduction,” David Withun highlighted the problem posed by the assumption

With this past June marking the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s birth, it is important that we reflect on the life and