Black Women, Public Housing, and Resistance
For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of
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Black women
The Troubled History of Medical Harm to Black Women
In 1805, a Black woman known in the historical record as Pleasant, took a deep breath and pushed her son
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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo
Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who
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Black Women’s Global Activism: An Interview with Carmen Hutchinson Miller
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” Dr. Carmen Hutchinson Miller was
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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” In June 1984 Trinidadian labor
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