"Black voters have not always been largely Democrats. From the post-Civil War Reconstruction until the late 1920, they predominantly...

ABSTRACT: Black feminist politics have traditionally been theorized outside formal political institutions, necessitating a nuanced and...

Watch as Duchess receives the 2022 Woman of Power Award. YWCA Minneapolis established the Woman of Power Award five years ago to honor...

Duchess Harris was recently named the 2022 YWCA Woman of Power Award, which is presented to an individual who has shown an extraordinary...

On Monday, Howard University issued an all-clear after telling students and faculty to stay indoors because of a bomb threat — the fourth...

In this interview with KARE 11, Harris talks about her works in the Duchess Harris Collection that were recently named in a banned book...

2021 was a year of unprecedented moments. From an insurrection at our nation’s capital, to the end of the longest war in American...

Watch Harris in A Beautiful Discussion: Black Resiliency, Centering Relationships, & Black Love. Featuring panelists Lissa Jones, &...

Collected is a project of the African American History Curatorial Collective at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History....

In 1997, Duchess Harris’ University of MN American Studies doctoral dissertation, “From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism from...