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Black Women Enterprising Freedom in Colonial Santo Domingo

Black women have been “winning” for Black freedom since the sixteenth century. Groups of enslaved African and African-descendant women who

In today’s post, Tiana U. Wilson, assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, interviews Dr. Vicki Alexander on

Earlier this year, we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As we look to the future,

Contemporary Black women writers weave words into imaginary worlds to create fiction that defies neat, tidy genre distinctions. Comic books,

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But