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Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here. The politics

As many across the U.S. were gearing up last year to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the nineteenth amendment and

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History