The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter
Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe
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Gender
Fashioning Lives: A New Book on Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Long History of Black Women’s Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the presidential inauguration, thousands of women will descend on the nation’s capital
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“Mothers of Pan-Africanism”: An Interview with Ashley Farmer
In today’s post, Azmar K. Williams, an editorial assistant of AAIHS, interviews Ashley D. Farmer about her recent article in
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Hidden Human Computers: A New Young Adult Book on NASA’s Black Women
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing that announces the publication of selected
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