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How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board

October 13, 2022October 12, 2022 Tejai Beulah Howard #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBOE, black intellectual history, Brown v. Board, education, Pauli Murray

This post is part of our forum on Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision According to

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The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2022October 4, 2022 Stefan Bradley #UntilIAmFree, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, democracy, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, SNCC

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. By age 44, most people

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Historicizing Black Left Feminism in Prerevolutionary Cuba

September 21, 2022September 14, 2022 Takkara Brunson Black Left Feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Women

In April 1925, white feminist leaders invited tobacco stemmer Inocencia Valdés to speak before delegates of the Second National Women’s

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Lorraine Hansberry: the Organizer

September 9, 2022August 30, 2022 Soyica Diggs Colbert #RadicalVision, black feminism, Black political thought, Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision As I completed the research for Radical Vision, I

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On Ambivalence, Revision, and the Remarkable Life of Lorraine Hansberry

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Isaiah Matthew Wooden #RadicalVision, art, Black political thought, Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision Among the many things that captured my

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