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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence

September 5, 2024August 13, 2024 Sean Gallagher Black women, law, slave law, slavery

In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the

A Creative-Theoretical Immersion into Black Radical Intellectual Thought, Part 2

August 27, 2024August 13, 2024 Carole Boyce Davies #AAIHSRoundtable, #TheDialecticIsInTheSea, black radical tradition, Black women, Brazil

This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. Beatriz Nascimento thus provides some significant

Requiem for a Howard University Student

April 4, 2024March 27, 2024 Menika Dirkson Black women, Gender

On February 4, 1958, eighteen-year-old Gloria Adelaide Jordan began her Freshman year of college at Howard University to pursue a

A Black Woman’s Story of Sacrifice and Survival

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Alexis Cathcart abolition, Black women

On January 4, 1861−one week before Alabama officially seceded from the Union−a 65-year-old freed Black woman named Sally Johnson, petitioned

Black Women’s Activism and the Long 1960s: A CBFS Interview

March 14, 2024March 11, 2024 Lucien Baskin Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne