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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and Madame De Mena: An Interview with Courtney Morris

January 12, 2017January 15, 2017 Kami Fletcher #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Universal Negro Improvement Association

In today’s post, Kami Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of African American History at Delaware State University, interviews Courtney Desiree Morris about

“Death Is Attached to Their Behavior”: Kim Burrell and Trans Women of Color

January 10, 2017January 12, 2017 Lindsey E. Jones black lives matter

In a video clip that has spread widely across the internet, gospel singer and pastor Kim Burrell intones, “Everybody in

When It Ain’t Broke: Black Female Representation in Comics

January 9, 2017August 5, 2017 Alyssa Collins #comicsandrace

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter

January 6, 2017January 11, 2017 Denise Lynn Black women, Communism

Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe