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Ella Baker for the 21st Century: National One Day Symposium

Keynote by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby

Presented by BCRW and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with […]

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Ella Baker

Radical Black Women of Harlem: A Walking Tour

Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba

Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.

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Amy Ashwood Garvey, audre lorde, Black radicalism, Black Women, Claudia Jones, Ella Baker, Eslanda Robeson, Harlem, Lorraine Hansberry, Louise Thompson Patterson, Madame C.J. Walker, Mae Mallory, Pauli Murray, Radical history, Regina Andrews, Williana Burroughs, Zora Neale Hurston

A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined

Barbara Ransby

Award-winning historian, writer, and longtime activist Barbara Ransby joins BCRW to give the 2017 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture in Feminist Criticism and History, “A Black Feminist Reading of the Movement for Black Lives: Resistance and the U.S. Left Reimagined.”   Ransby is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History […]

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Barbara Ransby, black feminism, Black Lives Matter, Ella Baker, Ella's Daughters, Movement for Black Lives