Dr. Irma McClaurin Featured In Spring Issue of Ms. Magazine

Dr. Irma McClaurin, an independent consultant, is featured in an article entitled “Curating History” in the women’s studies/LEGACY section in the spring 2018 issue of Ms. Magazine. Interviewed by Janell Hudson, McClaurin explains why she established the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive, a collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives and the DubBois Center. In the article McClaurin states “The Black Feminist Archive is a legacy project, …[and] an opportunity for us [Black women] to be curators of our own history.”