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Ruby J. Gainer, Black Educators, and the Long-Brown Era

March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 Ashley Everson

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, assistant professor of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and a

Black Women and the Brown Decision

March 5, 2026March 5, 2026 Hettie V. Williams Brown v. Board, Pauli Murray

Black American women such as Pauli Murray, Constance Baker Motley, Mamie Phipps Clark, and Ruby Gainer were the architects of

Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson

February 18, 2026February 18, 2026 Robert Greene II civil rights, electoral politics, Jesse Jackson

The passing of the Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026) leaves the world without one of its major remaining ties to the

Afterlives of the Plantation: An Interview with Jarvis C. McInnis

January 23, 2026January 22, 2026 Robert Greene II

In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, Former AAIHS President and Associate Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews Dr.

Christy Garrison-Harrison on Black Feminist Geographies

July 23, 2025July 23, 2025 Ashley Everson black feminism, geography, pedagogy

In today’s post, Ashley Everson, a managing editor of Global Black Thought, interviews Christy Garrison-Harrison, a scholar of Black Womanist Geographies, about