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The Power of Dr. Gwendolyn Patton’s Autobiography

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Ashley Farmer Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1967, Gwen Patton was driving to Montgomery, Alabama when her car started to rattle and stutter. She pulled over

The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

Criminal Justice Reform Won’t Work Until it Focuses on Black Women

March 1, 2021February 22, 2021 Talitha LeFlouria

President Biden’s racial equity agenda, launched with executive actions taken to address systemic racism and inequality in America, promises to

Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

Audre Lorde: Meet

February 18, 2021February 22, 2021 Alexis Pauline Gumbs African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, sexuality

1.arrangement “There is a place here where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and it is very magical,