Today we acknowledge the passing of Dr. Toni Morrison. Dr. Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. The author of 11 novels, children’s books, an opera, and critical essays, Dr. Morrison’s haunting, incisive book, Beloved, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. Her prose powerfully invoked both the awesome beauty and historical torment of Black womanhood in America. Professor Morrison’s work bravely examined enslavement …
Revealing the Rosa Parks yoga picture publicly for the first time underscores the ability of Black women’s historians to inform national effort…
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 …
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 …
The University of Mississippi is in many ways ground zero for debates around the meaning of race in public spaces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.