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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1

Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal

Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library) “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first