Tag: Constance Baker Motley

  • Nation & World

    Charting the path of a ‘Civil Rights Queen’

    In her new book, Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin explores the life of Civil Rights leader Constance Baker Motley.

    9 minutes
    Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
  • Nation & World

    Writing Black lives

    “Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.

    5 minutes
    Robert Reid-Pharr, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry.