Free Joan Little: Anti-rape Activism, Black Power, and the Black Freedom Movement
With the news of the Daniel Holtzclaw trial verdict, black women’s sexual assault should be front-page news. This should especially be the case
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Sara Baartman, Say Her Name: A Bicentennial Anniversary
One of the stranger stories that broke with the new year was the report (now discredited) of pop star Beyoncé writing
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Review: Sherie M. Randolph, Florynce “Flo” Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015)
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In my recent review of Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement
Read moreBenedicta’s Cabin and the Space of Silence
On August 12, 1798- the day in which the so-called Tailor’s Conspiracy of Bahia, Brazil was discovered by colonial authorities-
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