Search Results for: civil rights era

My Great-Grandmother Ida B. Wells Left a Legacy of Activism in Education

February 25, 2021February 21, 2021 Michelle Duster

As it hones its agenda, the new Biden administration would be wise to focus on racial and economic educational inequality.

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Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

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Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

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Online Forum: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 10, 2021February 14, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AudreLorde

February 15-19, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online forum to

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Henry Aaron and American Memory

February 8, 2021February 7, 2021 Robert Greene II Activism, Baseball, Henry Aaron, Jackie Robinson

The recent death of Henry Aaron sparked remembrances of both his legendary playing career and his longer fight for civil

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