Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell
In today’s post, blogger Annette Joseph-Gabriel interviews Robin Mitchell about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies
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Women
Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois
The recent Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality are a reminder that social justice advocacy and activism can come
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Poem: “Woman with a Voice”
*This poem is part of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett
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Poem: “What I Need”
*This poem is part of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett Felber.
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African American Women and the Building of Educational Institutions
In 1865, just months after the Civil War had ended, the Colored People’s Educational Monument Association (CPEMA) worked to establish
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