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Blackfeminisms.com is a website run by Black women for Black women. It’s essentially a cluster of blogs that acts as a gateway to the lives of black women through their own eyes. It is run by Dr. Melissa Brown, who was a PhD in sociology and she currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University.

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Deborah Willis is the author and editor of Black Venus 2010: They called her “Hottentot.” Deborah Willis is a University Professor and chair of the Photography and Imaging Department in the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Willis is a photographer and curator of African American culture. Her works include Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Carla Williams; and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present.

David Pilgrim is the founder and Director of The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids, Michigan. He was a former sociology professor at Ferris State, and is also its vice president for diversity and inclusion. The museum has the largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, until the civil rights movement, and beyond. It features anti-black caricatures and segregationist memorabilia. In an essay, Pilgrim discusses “The Jezebel Stereotype” in the 20th and 21th century. 

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Carol E. Henderson is the author and editor of 4 books, including Imagining the black female body: Reconciling image in print and visual culture. She joined Emory University in 2019 as vice provost for diversity and inclusion, chief diversity officer, and adviser to the president. Prior to joining Emory, she was Associate Director of Black American Studies and Associate Professor of English and Black American Studies at the University of Delaware.