Search Results for: civil rights era

State Violence and Pregnant Black Mothers

July 24, 2018July 26, 2018 Marlo David Black women, carceral state, Gender, motherhood, police violence

For Black women, pregnancy presents a multiplying set of vulnerabilities which illuminate the intersectional frames of race, gender, and class

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Challenging the Boundaries of Women’s History and Beyond

July 23, 2018July 26, 2018 Sasha Turner academia, Black women, black women scholars, Gender, Politics

Earlier this year, the Coordinating Council for Women in History issued a statement condemning the all-white male conference held at

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50 Years Since Detroit’s Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement

July 19, 2018July 26, 2018 Duncan Tarr Activism, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, capitalism

On July 8, 1968, a group of Black autoworkers led a wildcat strike that partially shut down Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge

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Gender and the Politics of Anti-Black State Violence

July 17, 2018July 20, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, Black women, police brutality, police violence

In the early hours of November 10, 2014, fifty-four-year-old Victor Stephens called the Ann Arbor Police Department to report a

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The National Council of Negro Women and the Black Freedom Struggle

July 17, 2018July 20, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, Black women, Resistance

When Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore for the Senate seat previously occupied by Attorney General and career racist Jeff Sessions

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