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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

December 8, 2017December 11, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle

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Remaking Black Power: A New Book on Women and Black Power

December 4, 2017December 7, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black feminism, Black women, social justice

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

December 2, 2017December 6, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, Resistance

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

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The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

November 20, 2017November 24, 2017 Grace D. Gipson black intellectual history, Black women

With this past June marking the 100th anniversary of Gwendolyn Brooks’s birth, it is important that we reflect on the life and

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