Oral History

Black Queer Southern Women: A New Book in Oral History

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

As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

In today’s post, J.T. Roane, Associate Editor at Black Perspectives and an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the

In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early