Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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Women
Black Women’s Efforts to Combat Food Insecurity
Last month, students at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges ended their two-week hunger strike designed to raise awareness about food insecurity
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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard
Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had
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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle
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Remaking Black Power: A New Book on Women and Black Power
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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