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Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller

February 26, 2018March 1, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Jim Crow, law, poverty, violence

Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor

Set the World on Fire: A New Book on Black Nationalist Women’s Activism

February 17, 2018February 24, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

Mississippi’s Civil Rights Museum: Reflections from a Native Daughter

February 14, 2018February 16, 2018 Tiyi Morris Activism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Donald Trump, racism

Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,

Two African American women, half-length portrait, facing each other (Daniel Murray Collection, Library of Congress).

New Directions in Black Women’s History

February 5, 2018February 8, 2018 Sasha Turner Black women, black women scholars, slavery

The New Directions in Female Bondage roundtable at this year’s Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), featured the recent