PODCAST INTERVIEWS

The Blackivsits
The Blackivists, a collective of professionally trained Black archivists in Chicago, partner with institutions and community groups to help preserve the city’s Black cultural heritage as well as model reparative approaches to archives and archiving. Daniel talks with Ashley Farmer, who teamed up with the Blackivists to produce the AHR History Lab piece “Toward an Archival Reckoning” for the June 2022 issue. One of the collective—Stacie Williams—joins Ashley to talk about the group’s work. And Adom Getachew checks in to set this project in the context of a larger arc of upcoming Lab entries on the theme of “engaged history.”
Listen at American Historical Review

Black Women's Power with Dr. Ashley Farmer
Black women don’t often get their roses in the history books, relegated instead into background roles. But for us to achieve liberation as a people, we must understand the need for collective action to achieve liberation. Dr. Ashley Farmer can attest to this need. An accomplished historian and author of the pioneering book “Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era,” Dr. Ashley Farmer spearheads this powerful conversation about Black women's role in the Black Power movement, and the invaluable role Black women played in paving the way to Black liberation. Listen at Apple Podcast.

Archives in Context
What does “Archiving While Black” feel like? Dr. Ashley Farmer, assistant professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, follows up with us on her Chronicle of Higher Education article and her talk at the 2019 SAA Annual Meeting. She also discusses the role of scholars of color in stewarding historical records and shares her thoughts on interprofessional engagement between historians and archivists. Listen at Society of American Archivists.

A More Complete Story of Black Power with Dr. Ashley Farmer
In this podcast we discuss Black Power and the Black Panther Party with historian, Dr. Ashley Farmer. She answers such questions as: What are the central principles of Black Power? Did Black Power start with Stokely Carmichael in 1966? and who were some of the important women in the Black Power movement?
Listen at High School History Recap.

Reparations
Dr. Farmer talks about the history of reparations from the original promise of 40 acres & a mule to current conversations. She focuses especially on the importance of Callie House and Audley "Queenmother" Moore in furthering the fight for reparations. Dr. Farmer also discusses the impact reparations would have on lives of Black women. Listen at Reparations.

Conversations with Dr. Ashley Farmer
Ashley Farmer is a historian of Black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas- Austin. Her book, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, is the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era. Listen at Cite Black Women.

The Revolutionary Mae Mallory
Mae Mallory was a radical civil rights activist, Black Power movement leader, school desegregation organizer and strong proponent of Black armed self-defense. Her passionate dedication to “solving Black peoples’ problems” changed the world, but her name is mostly known because of her false arrest and conviction for kidnapping an elderly white couple in 1961. Listen at What’s Her Name.

Intersectional Feminism: Representation In Saturday's Women's Marches
The Women's March on Washington is seen as a march for women's unity. But the often-fractious relationship between white feminists and women of color is giving rise to tensions. Listen at WNYC.

AfroAm Studies Roundtable: Archiving While Black
For histories to be written, historians must engage archival material. What happens, though, when particular groups of historians do not feel like they have full access to archival material(s), simply because of their race? Before the 1960s and 1970s, when Black historians were accepted into the historical profession, African American scholars did not have equal access to the archives. The stain of this history has yet to go away. Listen at New Books Network.

Women and the work of building Black Power
Historian Ashley D. Farmer examines the radical work of women in the Black Power movement - as a multi-generational effort to redefine and reclaim Blackness, and as a challenge to Eurocentric gender politics, imperialism and the supremacy of capital, within Black political movements, and across society at large. Listen at This Is Hell.

Remaking Black Power
Recent documentary treatments like The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 in 2011 and The Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution in 2015 brought the Panthers into the households of a new generation. When combined with Beyonce’s 2016 Super Bowl halftime performance, the Black Power movement’s memory hit a high note upon its fiftieth anniversary. Listen at New Books Network.