Black Female Undertakers in 20th-Century Baltimore
Historically, the business of black undertaking has been framed as a male success story—focusing on narratives of lone freedmen with
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Author: Kami Fletcher
Migration, Diasporic Self-Making, and Madame De Mena: An Interview with Courtney Morris
In today’s post, Kami Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of African American History at Delaware State University, interviews Courtney Desiree Morris about
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A Tribute to Gloria Naylor: Teacher of Black Feminism
On September 28, Gloria Naylor passed away from heart failure. She was 66 years old and one of the
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#MuseumsRespondtoFerguson: An Interview with Aleia Brown and Adrianne Russell
This month I interviewed the founders of a new digital humanities project, #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson. Aleia Brown (left) is the co-founder of #MuseumsRespondtoFerguson
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Teaching the African Diaspora in Canada
As a scholar of African American history, I teach students about the experience of Africans in the Americas. Through survey
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