Abstract Gloria Ladson Billings dubbed culturally relevant teaching as an approach to
teaching that positions instruction within a familiar cultural framework for diverse learners …

Black women are underrepresented in all ranks of higher education, from tenured faculty to
university presidents. There is a need for academic leadership programs that support Black …

Drawing from an arts-based research and humanizing methodologies, Dywanna Smith
documents transformative and liberatory spaces in ELA middle level classrooms, where …

Women's Lives integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the
psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality …

Because Black girls are seen as oppositional to middle-class, white femininity and
positioned as unworthy of protection within oppressive systems, Black girl play is deemed …

In a 2020 panel on “# StrongBlackFemaleLeads in Comics and Graphic Novels” at the
Eighth Annual Black Comic Book Festival (Harlem, NY), scholar and comic book writer Dr …

Historically, Black women have been known as the backbone of education in their
communities; however, Black Girls today still face significant barriers to educational …

It is not uncommon for Blackgirls to face and navigate social-political power dynamics
related to their race and gender, also known as intersectionality. Intersectionality is an …

On August 17, 2019, Lala (a pseudonym) stopped at an unfamiliar gas station in Kentucky,
and no matter how many times she tried to use the pump, it didn't work. She looked around …

The purpose of our chapter is to disrupt and resist the ways that Black girls' multimodal
practices are silenced in traditional research and in the broader US social context …