The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (2011) and
Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield (2015) in 2016, when a source tipped her off that an all-female militia was advancing the cause of women’s rights in Syria as they battled the Islamic State. Serving with the YPJ, the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, the women were effective fighters and tacticians, widely respected by the men who served with them; yet, their story was largely unknown beyond the frontlines of the Syrian war. Lemmon is as fearless as her subjects, and her account of researching this story over three years in northern Iraq and northeastern Syria is an education in conflict reporting; her own story, connected to that of these women, makes for an incredibly compelling read.
Wake Forest University has received a $1 million donation for its new African-American studies program that will begin this fall, the university said Tuesday.
Wake Forest University Receives $1M Gift Toward African American Studies by Neal Charnoff
10:57am Jan 27, 2021 Wake Forest University Professor of Humanities Corey Walker will be the inaugural director of a new African American Studies program. Photo credit: Wake Forest University.
Wake Forest University has received a $1 million anonymous gift to support a new African American Studies program that begins this fall.
The gift will establish a fund named for Dr. Dolly A. McPherson
, a long-time Wake Forest English professor who made significant contributions to African American literary studies. McPherson came to Wake Forest in the 1970s as the first full-time Black female faculty member. She died in 2011.