Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell
On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in
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Gender
Black Networks, Visualization, and Mapping Tools
*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The use of software and visualizations has never been so prominent in
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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
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Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?
Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,
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Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa
Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in
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