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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

The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women

January 24, 2018January 30, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, black protest, Black women, Communism, NAACP, racism, sexual violence, South, white supremacy

The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent

Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement

January 19, 2018January 23, 2018 Alexandra Fair Black women, criminal justice system, Donald Trump, law, Politics, racism

On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William