Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent book is Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America.

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  1. They Called Her ‘Black Jet’

    Joetha Collier, a young Black woman, was killed by a white man in 1971, near the Mississippi town where Emmett Till was murdered. Why isn’t her case known nationally today?

    Keisha N. Blain
    a painting of a group of women in the '70s with a painting of Joetha Collier in the background
    © Esiri Essi courtesy of Nino Mier Gallery