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Barbara Ransby (born May 12, 1957) is an American writer, historian, professor, and Activism. She is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians, and holds the John D. MacArthur Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago.
In 1996, she joined the faculty of University of Illinois Chicago, where she is professor of Black Studies and Gender studies, and History at the university. Ransby was elected president of the National Women's Studies Association for a two-year term, which began in November 2016. She is a historian of the Movement for Black Lives.
Ransby's academic work has featured biographies of 20th-century black women activists Ella Baker and Eslanda Robeson. In contemporary politics, she has been executive director of a non-profit organization. Her daughter Asha Rosa Ransby-Sporn is as of 2021 a national organizing co-chair of the non-profit youth organization BYP100.
In 1995, Ransby, together with other black feminists including Angela Davis, Evelynn Hammonds and Kimberlé Crenshaw, formed an alliance called the African American Agenda 2000 to oppose Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, out of concern that it would further black male sexism.
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Categories: 1957 Births, 20th-century African-american People, 21st-century African-american Writers, 21st-century American Historians, Living People, Presidents Of The National Women's Studies Association, University Of Illinois Chicago Faculty, University Of Michigan Alumni, Columbia University School Of General Studies Alumni
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