Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones
In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of
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Historical Memory
Excavating the History of Afro-Brazilian Women
Only a few pages remain of what is cited as the first known text written by an Afro-Brazilian woman. Rosa
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University of Texas’s Racial Geography Tour: A Review
In the process of reconciling the history of institutional racism, colleges and universities have turned to race-cognizant tours to acknowledge
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“We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black”
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. On January 2, 1893, eighty-nine
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Unearthing New Histories of Black Appalachia
“Depending on the ‘truth’ of the alternate versions, Liberia’s founding may be seen as a white kindness or as a
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