Because of them…
We Are.
The ancestors whose words, witness, and work guide mine.
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Barbara Jordan
Malcolm X
Audre Lorde
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pauli Murray
Fannie Lou Hamer
Mary E. McCoy
Elijah McCoy
Howard Thurman
Harriet Tubman
Nina Simone
Langston Hughes
Ida B. Wells
Paul Robeson
Malcolm X
Audre Lorde
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fannie Lou Hamer
James Baldwin
Barbara Jordan
Elijah and Mary McCoy
Pauli Murray
Maya Angelou
Paul Robeson
Ida B. Wells
Nina Simone
Langston Hughes
Harriet Tubman
Howard Thurman
Malcolm X Audre Lorde Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fannie Lou Hamer James Baldwin Barbara Jordan Elijah and Mary McCoy Pauli Murray Maya Angelou Paul Robeson Ida B. Wells Nina Simone Langston Hughes Harriet Tubman Howard Thurman
Historian.
Educator.
Innovator.
I am LaNesha McCoy. My academic and professional life is centered on a simple conviction: Black history is American history, and it enriches the lives of all.
Museums and libraries give life.
I am a library and museum practitioner with over twenty years of experience leading museums, libraries, and educational initiatives with forward-facing vision. As a public historian, I study late-19th- and 20th-century African American history with an interdisciplinary specialization in educational history.
Work, words, and witness.
Latest Media
McCoy (DeBardelaben) Discusses Nat Turner on C-SPAN
Opening reflections on the life of Nat Turner in conversation with his great-great-great-grandson, Bruce Turner.
Latest Writing
60 Years of Progress, and an Unfinished Journey Toward Justice
Reflections in the Seattle Times on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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