This paper considers# blacklivesmatter an important part of current discussions of race and
social justice. It explores the ways in which Twitter users (and students) are developing a …

At stake in contemporary US racial tensions is a struggle over the meaning of being
“human.” By drawing on black feminist theories of being human as verb, and minority …

McGee critiques the popular Health & Wealth message so prominently targeted especially to
black Christian women. She examines the preaching and writing of TD Jakes as the most …

WEB DuBois began his work as a scholar‐activist at the dawn of the twentieth century, and
this article argues that his example has much to teach contemporary scholar‐activists in the …

This qualitative inquiry focused on exploring counseling students'(N= 22) lived experiences
with participating in an experiential workshop focused on creatively exploring messages …

Few historical figures resonate with my students as powerfully as anti-lynching activist Ida B.
Wells-Barnett. Known to only a handful of students before they take my class on African …

In 1949, a lumber executive and city alderman in Charleston, South Carolina, named Alfred
O. Halsey produced a visually unique map of the Charleston peninsula. The map highlights …

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates
the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. What does it mean to be an …

D orothy Porteres career spanned the birth of Black studies: from the decades of the early
twentieth century when scholarship in Black print and culture was proliferating and flagship …

In the summer of 2015, I was asked to teach a weeklong course for incoming students to
acclimate them to a discussion-based liberal arts classroom. This was the same summer that …