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Today on Black History Talks, Dr. Bernard Powers sits down with Dr. Ashley Dennis. Ashley D. Dennis is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston. She is also the Public History Coordinator of the MA program in History and a faculty affiliate of the African American Studies Program. Dr. Dennis is a scholar of African American history, with specialties in Black women’s history, the history of Black education, and Black intellectual history. Her current book manuscript, Intellectual Emancipation: Black Women, Education, and Anti-Blackness in the Age of Jim Crow, explores how and why Black women teachers, librarians, and authors promoted the study of Black history and culture among children during the mid-twentieth century. She examines their involvement in debates about book banning, the causes and solutions to racism, the nature of slavery in the U.S., and the relationship between Africa and the African diaspora.