Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby is a historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and scholarly venues. She is most notably the author of an award-winning biography of civil-rights activist Ella Baker, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina, 2003), which won no less than six major awards. Additionally, in 1995, Barbara Ransby helped found African American Agenda 2000 alongside leaders such as Angela Davis, Evelynn Hammonds, and Kimberlé Crenshaw.