Revealing the Rosa Parks yoga picture publicly for the first time underscores the ability of Black women’s historians to inform national effort…
“That Rihanna reign just won’t let up”: Fenty, Black Beauty, and Race in the Fashion Industry.
Three and a half years have passed since Rihanna released an album despite fans, affectionately known as the Rihanna Navy, clamoring for new music from the Bajan pop music star. But there’s been no shortage of Rihanna’s presence, influence, and cultural impact amid the demands for a ninth studio album. From her award-winning and best-selling collaboration with Puma to her racially and ethnically inclusive, consumer friendly makeup brand Fenty Beauty to her …
2019 ABWH Publication Prizes Call
The Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) is pleased to announce the following awards: The 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize The 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize The 2019 Drusilla Dunjee Houston Memorial Scholarship Award The 2019 Lorraine A. Williams Leadership Award The 2019 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Junior Faculty Award Please see below for more Information on how to apply or nominate candidates and the respective deadlines for each award. 2019 …
#UpWithIda Campaign Challenges the University of Mississippi to Celebrate a True Rebel
The University of Mississippi is in many ways ground zero for debates around the meaning of race in public spaces.
The Erasure and Resurrection of Julia Chinn, U.S. Vice President Richard M. Johnson’s Black Wife.
Imogene Johnson Pence’s line, already living as white people, chose to stop telling their children that they were descended from Richard Mentor Johnson… and his black wife.
Black History Month and the Truth Held in Violence: An ABWH Book Interview with Kellie Carter Jackson.
John Brown was merely putting black ideals and ideology into practice. To me, black ideals regarding political violence was a story that needed to be told.
Teacher Strikes & The History of Black Teachers’ Protests
Linking workers’ concerns with the concerns of students and their communities, the striking teachers echo a much longer history of organizing by Black women educators within and outside of unions, particularly in Chicago.
#MLKDay Message from 2019 ABWH National Director Erica Armstrong Dunbar
As much of the nation took the day to be intentional about service, I thought about the service that we do every day. We teach, we write, we direct, we archive, we collect, and we produce history that has been erased or ignored. We are the Association of Black Women Historians−a network of scholars that encompass every region of the nation. We are everywhere. Our work is everywhere.
Healing, History, and “Surviving R. Kelly”
There can be no healing without truth telling and truth telling at its best leads to abusers’ accountability and it spurs communities to change responses to violence.
Six hours: R. Kelly and the Contemporary Archive of Violence Against Black Girls
When the archive speaks through the testimonies of Black women and girls and we refuse to listen, the lives and well-being of those women and girls are at stake.