Writer Karla Mendez reflects on the life of Irene Amos Morgan, whose refusal to submit to Jim Crow interstate travel laws helped pave the way for the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
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A reading list by Fania Noël from her teach-in “Afrofeminism in France: A Political Autonomy as a Compass” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
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Patrica Robinson is an unknown but important radical, Black feminist who advocated for mental health, reproductive rights, socialism, and same-sex adoption in the Black community.
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In their dynamic work, authors and activists Dr. Allener M. Baker-Rogers and Fasaha M. Traylor center, interrogate, and uplift the lives, leadership, and legacy of historical and contemporary Black women activists in the “City of Brotherly Love”.
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A historian, activist, educator, and a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD), Stella Dadzie is a revolutionary of the Black British Feminist Movement and a trailblazer of the Black radical tradition in the United Kingdom and beyond.
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At 15-years-old, human rights activist, poet, educator, Black Panther Party leader, and former political prisoner, Ericka Huggins (she/her) made a vow to serve humanity at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Now at 72, the revolutionary is still just as dedicated and committed to the vow she made 57 years ago.
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A powerhouse political activist, feminist, journalist, community organizer, anthropologist, and the former Minister of Economic Development of The Young Lords Party and member of the Black Panther Party, Denise Oliver-Velez is still and will always be radical, rebellious, and militantly Black.
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Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang is undoing historical and contemporary revisionist French history that has tried to erase the contributions, leadership, and political achievements of Black French Radical Women in France and in the French Empire.
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Katie Petitt (she/her/hers) is doing the critical work of highlighting and spotlighting the leadership of activists around the world whose stories have often gone overlooked..
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A Black queer feminist organizer, activist, educator, and student affairs professional, Trinice McNally (she/her/hers) is relentless when it comes to transforming and creating liberatory spaces for LGBTQ+ students at HBCUs.
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Sydney Stephens (she/her/hers) wants LGBTQ+ students at HBCUs to know their lives, their politics, their activism, and their humanity matters.
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Queer activist, organizer, and movement journalist, Clarissa Brooks (she/her/hers) is here to remind HBCUs and students alike that respectability politics, symbolic representation, and the limiting narrative of ‘Black Excellence’ will not save us.
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Destiny Harris (who uses all pronouns) is tired of the erasure of queer students, organizing, and leadership at HBCUs.
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Black women have led the call for reparations since emancipation, but what are politicians, scholars, and activists saying about it today? By holding up the present moment against movement leaders of the past, it became clear to me, among other things, that politically-neutered personal appeals to non-Black, non-enslaved African descended audiences aren’t what we need.
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