Black Women, Public Housing, and Resistance
For as long as public housing has been described as a “failure,” lower-income Black women have been the face of
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Celebrating Black Intellectual History–Then and Now
In “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows,” a video created for her high school history class that later went viral, Amandla
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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
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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora
African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans
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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” In June 1984 Trinidadian labor
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