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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
By Zillah Eisenstein I am writing this just a few weeks after the Women’s marches of 2019. Tens of thousands of women — non-binary, trans, gender variant,...
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Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part II
Today is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I almost hate that we commemorated a holiday in his honor because I’m convinced iconicity leads...
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Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part I
W. E. B. Du Bois’s poignant words in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,” is scripture for...
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On #survivingrkelly: deconstruction, accountability, and a #networkofpredation
I finished Episode 6 of #survivingrkelly executive produced by dream hampton late last night. Full disclosure: I am a Black woman sexual assault survivor who...
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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read a collective statement from The Damned Collective to/with/for...
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The Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an Anti-Racist Professional Ethics for White Women’s Studies Directors
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson call to White Women...
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The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read Dr. Joy James’ response to the “Chicago...
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A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
We, The Damned Collective, are delighted to host the work of The Damned. Below you will read and certainly be inspired by this collective statement...
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Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
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Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
We are pleased to announce the publication of Tamura Lomax’s new book, Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture (Duke University Press),...
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#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
Sept 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” premiered on Broadway for the first...
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#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
By Kimberly Peeler-Ringer When Aretha Franklin recorded her live “Amazing Grace” album with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir at the New Temple...
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#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
By Andrea Plaid I’m not even sure who Rev. Jasper Williams was talking about in his eulogy. I know it wasn’t Mother Franklin. Not the...
