Save The Date!

ABWH will convene our 45th Anniversary Conference in New Orleans later this year!

Our conference theme is: 'Our Mothers' Gardens:' The Future of Black Women's History!

See you December 5-7, 2024! #ABWH2024 #ABWH45 #ABWHFuture

I’m honored and proud to announce that my dissertation, “Revolution & Struggle: The Enduring Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance, 1968-2010,” was awarded the Organization of American Historians’s 2024 Lerner-Scott Prize for best dissertation in US Women’s History. ABWH Truth UT History Department

Another forthcoming book to get excited about?!

Dr. Crystal Sanders, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (@UNC_Press, October 2024).

uncpress.org/book/978146967…

'Commentators complain that the world ignores #Sudan . The truth may be worse. The world knows but doesn’t really care.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This Mother’s Day, our thoughts are with the mothers of Congo, Gaza, and Sudan. To mothers who lost their lives. To mothers enduring pregnancy and birth in harsh conditions. To mothers who have lost their children. To the mothers who are trying to keep their children alive.

I'm proud of my department for passing this strong statement in support of student protest! We call on Félix V. Matos Rodríguez to keep cops off campus and respond to the protesters' #FiveDemands . #CUNY #GazaSolidarityEncampment

If you are interested in which states are banning books and which ones have pending legislation, please feel free to read and circulate our research brief.
Thank you in advance!
#education
#EducationMatters
#librarians
aleronline.org/page/LS

“While cops are on, I’m off.” #onstrike #copsoffcampus 🍉❤️🖤💚 fsjp-cbt

aaihs.org/chris-hani-nat…

All eyes on Rafah.

This isn’t war. This is genocide.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

Gaza Is Palestine is a Palestinian-led effort from Adalah Justice Project & MPower Change to ... keep the stories of Palestinian families decimated by Israeli state violence in the public eye, shorten the distance between people... More:
gazaispalestine.com/songbook #GazaUnderSeige

Right now @UMichSPH’s commencement speaker, Jodi-Ann Burey, condemned the UMich’s leaders for not divesting in the face of the genocide in Gaza. “We are witnessing the most well-documented genocide in human history on our cell phones.”

BREAKING: The Department of Education has announced that Columbia University University is under federal investigation for anti-Palestinian discrimination and harassment. Palestine Legal is representing four Palestinian students and Columbia UniversitySJP.

I appreciated the chance to talk to AJ+ about the situation here and the climate we are facing. Much gratitude to every journalist who actually comes here and shows the world what it’s like.

I am so SO excited to be speaking at Bluestockings Cooperative on Weds May 8 at 6pm! I’ll be in conversation with the brilliant Jeanne Theoharis about my new book, Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Blavk Power in Detroit. Come thru!
NYU Press Black Power Series

I'm excited to announce the publication of my article, ''A New Era of Black Thought': Revisiting Gil Scott-Heron and the HBCU Protest Novel,' in the latest issue of The Vermont Connection!
scholarworks.uvm.edu/tvc/vol45/iss1…

'The ANC’s 1994 electoral victory and its memory, however, obscures this tension within the global anti-Apartheid movement,' writes Amanda Joyce Hall today at Black Perspectives. Read the first installment in our forum, 'The End of South African Apartheid' : aaihs.org/african-libera…

I shed many tears as I read this beautiful essay by #EdwidgeDanticat she is always an exemplar of writing with your whole heart 🙏🏾 The Haiti That Still Dreams | The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/essay/…

When the past is present. #PATarchives #radicaltherapy #Vietnam #palestine 🇵🇸
instagram.com/p/C6Jtx1Jurgk/…

Photos: 200 days of Israel’s war on Gaza aje.io/hwb0le via Al Jazeera English