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In honor of Women's History Month, the Sentinel spotlights Dr. Karida L. Brown. Her forthcoming book "The Battle for the Black Mind" is a powerful journey through the history of Black education, revealing the centuries-long struggle to control Black intellectual life in America and across the globe.
The NAACP awardwinning sociologist 1s featured in the PBS documentary series "Great Migrations: A People On The Move" with Henry Louis Gates.
"When "Skip" Gates calls, you answer!" Brown recalled. "And that answer is always going to be yes. His team invited me to participate in the documentary which I knew would be momentous.
"In 2018, I published my book, "Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia," which traces the hidden history of the Great Migration and talks about Black folks who moved through the coal country of Appalachia. That book uses oral history to tell stories of the movers and shakers of the African American Migration. That's how Dr. Gates found me, and as...