“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad
William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women
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Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism
Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial
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Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory
Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in
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Writing on the Legacy of May Ayim
In her suicide note on August 9, 1996, Black German activist-intellectual May Ayim sadly wrote, “I have lived and experienced
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Resurrecting Shirley Chisholm from Symbol to Life
Fifteen years ago, I decided to write a biography of a Black woman. My scholarly genealogy pushed me toward such
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