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Are we ready to be well?
Cara Page: She asks us to be well/ to love ourselves and one another/ So that we are all safe and loved.
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Exposing the Invisible Betrayal: Removing the Gag from Our Mouths and Speaking of the Police Rapes of Black Women
Farah Tanis: Tell me what freedom fighter, what human rights defender has ever had to ask—can I stand up? With or without your permission I’m...
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Personal is Political: TCB Is What She Did and Was Who She Was
It was at the National Conference of African American writers held on the campus of Howard University in 1974 that she read her short story...
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Personal is Political: Reflections on Toni Cade Bambara
S. E. Anderson and Rosemari Mealy: Hearing Toni’s voice in her poetry presentations was both serious-determined with a jazzy lyrical flava. I strongly believe Sista...
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Toni Cade Bambara—A Member of My Small Village
Sarah C. Poindexter: Your impact transcending my small village to persons near and wide—a whole world of people had read your books, watched your films,...
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The Authenticating Audience
Louis Massiah: On the contrary, when art is understood as a mode of political work, with the explicit goal of communicating a needed counter-narrative or...
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The Good Death of Toni Cade Bambara
Clyde Taylor: Watching the Sisters lead this hip-rumbling, drum-based ritual I wondered, “Say hello to the Sisters of the Good Death for me.” But how...
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Laughing on the Other Side of the Mountain: A Love Letter to My Friend Toni Cade Bambara
Ayoka Chenzira: We were more excited to see each other than to hear what was being said to us by industry leaders whose real job...
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Love Note for Toni Cade Bambara
Zeinabu irene Davis: I still feel you with me when I am watching films in the dark. I will always remember how I would watch...
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Photographs of Toni Cade Bambara & Friends
Photo griot Susan J. Ross shares photographs of Toni Cade Bambara and her friends during this forum celebration.
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Re-Membering Audre Lorde and Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Was it coincidence or karmic symmetry that the first day of our celebration in honor of Bambara falls on the twenty-second anniversary...
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Personal is Political: Toni Cade Bambara
Paula J. Giddings: The relevance of the to-do list, nearly a half-century later is remarkable; the sensibility definitely our own; and the attitude shaped the...
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Personal is Political: bell hooks Remembers Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara was a central and important figure in the development of my political conscience, because she was by far one of the most...
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Dark Energy (a poem)
Samiya A. Bashir: Wake from nightmares midchant. Squish sandblown eyes still as death with a hum bird’s beating heart.
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“Not All Speed Is Movement”: Toni Cade Bambara and the Black Feminist Tradition
I always honor the multivocal, intellectual shoulders on which I stand. And I ask my students to always do the same. While I have begun...
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Changing the Letter: TFW Celebrates Toni Cade Bambara
And sister Toni’s influences are not merely theoretical. They are lived. The Feminist Wire prides itself in modeling the scholar/activist spirit of our feminist ancestors....
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Mother of the Movement: Remembering Bambara and the “African Bones in the Briny Deep”
Chadra Pittman Walke: I began what would become my life’s work with ancestors eighteen years ago at the NYABG. I witnessed daily the profound connection...
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Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Black Self-Defense in the Wake of Ferguson
By Luam Kidane and Hakima Abbas After nearly three months of deliberation the grand jury decision on whether to indict the police officer who murdered...
