The ‘Queen Mother’ of the Reparations Movement Gets Her Due

The Formation of Queen Mother Moore

Ashley D. Farmer’s new book documents the story of Audley Moore and the contentious Black nationalism movement.

The ‘Queen Mother’ of the Reparations Movement Gets Her Due

The image that graces the cover of historian Ashley Farmer’s new biography of Pan-African activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore is no less regal than the iconic photograph of Black Panthers founder Huey Newton in a rattan throne chair that many of us are more familiar with.  Moore sits in an old striped armchair, wearing an African-print caftan and headdress, neck draped with beads, wrist adorned with bangles. Behind her, portraits of Malcolm X a…