In 1911, Mary Dykes was tried for vagrancy and sentenced to twelve months hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. A few months later she “became insane” and “unable to work.” In 2016, Sherry Richburg’s leg was amputated after a prison physician denied her access to antibiotics. Mary and Sherry exemplify the historical abuses of … Read more
This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for more details. Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and has won … Read more
TaNefer L. Camara, IBCLC, maternal health & equity strategist and healer Linda Jones, Executive Director and co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice (BWBJ) Dr. Sayida Peprah-Wilson, licensed clinical psychologist and birth doula, Founder and Executive Director of Diversity Uplifts, Inc. Alexus Roane, MPH, Graduate Fellow for Research at IRWG; PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of … Read more
Join the Center for Racial Justice in welcoming Dr. Moya Z. Bailey, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, founder of the Digital Apothecary, and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective for a workshop on misogynoir in education. This workshop invites participants to identify where misogynoir exists in their lives and begin the long processual … Read more