Daina Ramey Berry

Daina Ramey Berry is a professor of history and chairperson of the history department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the co-author of A Black Women's History of the United States.

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  1. The Truth About Black Freedom

    This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means—and how far the country still has to go.

    Daina Ramey Berry
    A Kerry James Marshall painting of two Black children coming down a road, one on a bike and the other on foot
    Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery. © Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, London