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A suggested reading list from Melissa Harris-Perry on Black feminism.

Serves as an outlet for the cultivation of scholarship that centers on Black women.

A video of Beverly Guy-Sheftall talking about the remarkably long history of Black feminists and the links between the abolition and suffragist movements for Makers, a women’s leadership platform.

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says,…

A draft of a syllabus to a Black Womanhood course taught by Jessica Marie Johnson and Martha S. Jones, first taught Spring 2018 at Johns Hopkins University.

A selection of posts on Beyonce and #Lemonade that run the gamut from discussing feminism (as theory, as practice, as both), slavery, the South, infidelity, ancestry, motherhood, Afrxdiasporic systems of belief, sex and sexuality, capitalism and…

Activist anthropologist, administrator, consultant, leader, mentor, professor, and writer.

The CRC was established in 1974 set goals to make black feminism and lesbianism a part of the women’s movement because before this group the feminist movement was based solely on the heterosexual white middle class women.

A coalition comprised of 200 community-based sections in 32 states and 38 national organizational affiliates that works to enlighten and inspire more than 3,000,000 women and men. Its mission is to lead, advocate for and empower women of African…

A history project to connect with the signatories of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves proclamation. More than 1600 signed it following Anita Hill’s testimony during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Clarence Thomas’…