Black Women and Civil War Pensions
By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a
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Women
Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community
On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,
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Black Mothers and the Lingering Wounds of Racial Violence
The resulting grief and trauma that follows Black mothers whose children are victims of terrorizing acts of racial violence persist
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Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops
In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black
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Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History
Gloria Richardson passed away on July 15, 2021, at the age of 99. Tributes have already poured in for the
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