Amy Yeboah Quarkume is associate professor of Africana studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies and the director of student engagement at the Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership at Howard University. She is an editor of the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series.
Drawing on a rich archive of letters, Amy Yeboah Quarkume brings needed attention to a pioneer in Black women’s higher education, Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe. Her Truth and Service provides insight into Slowe's person and importantly introduces a new generation of scholars to Slowe’s defiant insistence that Black women matter and deserve educational spaces where they can experience personal growth, alliance building, and joy. -- Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Grinnell College, author of <i>To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe</i>