Watch the Playback on YouTube: Forging Black Sovereignty: Queen Mother Audley Moore's Uncompromising Commitment to Black Nation Building by Dr. Ashley D. Farmer
Watch the playback of the teach-in, “Forging Black Sovereignty: Queen Mother Audley Moore's Uncompromising Commitment to Black Nation Building” by Dr. Ashley D. Farmer for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
On Wednesday, August 13 at 6:30 PM EST, we hosted the teach-in, “Forging Black Sovereignty: Queen Mother Audley Moore's Uncompromising Commitment to Black Nation Building” by Dr. Ashley D. Farmer. This teach-in was a part of our “Black Feminist Marronage Series”, which is inspired by the power, self-determination, and activism of Black women and gender expansive communities around the world, and their unrepentant and unyielding fortitude in creating transformative places and spaces of sanctuary, survival, and solidarity for ourselves and posterity.
You can watch the teach-in here: https://youtube.com/live/ZBXB0PnOhtE
About the teach-in: “Forging Black Sovereignty: Audley Moore's Uncompromising Commitment to Black Nation Building” delves into the life of one of the most formidable figures in 20th-century Black politics: Queen Mother Audley Moore. Spanning from the Garvey movement of the 1920s to the grassroots organizing of the 1990s, this teach-in traces Moore’s tireless pursuit of Black sovereignty—both as a political reality and as a guiding philosophy. Farmer explores how Moore’s bold vision for independent Black nationhood challenged dominant civil rights strategies and carved out space for radical alternatives rooted in self-determination, self-governance, and collective survival. Moore’s life reveals how Black women were not just participants but architects of liberation movements and how they viewed sovereignty not as separatism, but as an essential foundation for Black life and liberation.
About the teach-in curator: DR. ASHLEY D. FARMER is a historian of black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (UNC Press) and Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon). Farmer's scholarship has appeared in numerous venues including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History. Her research has also been featured in several popular outlets including Harper's Bazaar, NPR, and Teen Vogue. Her next book project is Watched: The Black Women Tracked by the FBI, a history of the rise and fall of COINTELPRO through the eyes of the Black women J. Edgar Hoover hunted.