Clenora Hudson-Weems Author

Clenora Hudson-Weems coined the concept of Africana Womanism. She has written several books on the concept, in addition to significant works on Emmett Till and Toni Morrison. Recipients of numerous awards, she was distinguished Honoree for the 1st International Africana Womanism Conference at the University of Zimbabwe, 2010.

The first to established Emmett Till as the true catalyst of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in her 1988 Ford Doctoral Dissertation, "Emmett Till: The Impetus of the Modern Civil Rights Movement" (University of Iowa), she has written three books on the subject, including the dissertation-turned-book, Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement (1994), and Emmett—Legacy, Redemption & Forgiveness (2014) upon which her film script is based. She is co-author of Toni Morrison (1990), the first book written on the Nobel Laureate.