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Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty

Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

The resulting grief and trauma that follows Black mothers whose children are victims of terrorizing acts of racial violence persist