The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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Black women
Black Women’s Anti-War and Anti-Colonial Activism
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated
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We Live for the We: A New Book on the Political Power of Black Motherhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence
Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s
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