The Future Is Black and Female: Afrofuturism and Comic Books
For comic book and superhero fans worldwide, the release of Captain America: Civil War on May 6, 2016 became permanently
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Gender
Intersectional Health Equity in Brazil: An Interview with Kia Lilly Caldwell
In today’s post, Erica L. Williams, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, interviews Kia Lilly Caldwell about her new
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Writing a New History of Black Religion: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming One afternoon while sitting in the Schomburg Center reading
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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War
Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which
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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender
“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s
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