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August 2020

Black Feminism Initiative meets the moment, in service of a more just future

If higher education can be thought of as a superhighway to success and social mobility, Black women have always had to manufacture their own vehicles to access it. They must navigate a system whose fastest on-ramps, most well-maintained lanes, bridges and sources of replenishment were founded and structured to best support those who are white,…

Five Black suffragists who were critical to the long battle for the vote

By Jessica Wolf In her latest book, “Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote,” UCLA professor emerita Ellen DuBois traces the three-generation struggle that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. The battle for women’s suffrage was intertwined with America’s confrontation with slavery and its enduring effects of structural racism and…