What’s New: January 2025

January 23, 2025

The January update to the Oxford African American Studies Center has published 8 new entries, including Gloria Ford Gilmer, the first African American woman to have her mathematics papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and writer and activist Évelyne Trouillot.

Gloria Ford Gilmer  (1928-2021), mathematician, educator, and activist
Michele Moody-Adams (1956-), philosopher
Sirone (Norris Jones) (1940-2009) avant-garde jazz bassist
Jesse Stahl (1884-1935), rodeo rider
Évelyne Trouillot (1954-), novelist, children’s book author, playwright, poet, professor, translator, and activist
Constantin Henriquez (ca. 1876/1877-?), rugby player, Olympic champion, senator, physician,  and writer
Lushington Wendell Bruce-James  (1891-1968) composer and concert pianist
Robert Wiley Coleman (1876-1946), piano tuner

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