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  • Regrets: Professor Manning Marable

    The editors of TFW note with great sadness the passing of Manning Marable, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia...

  • Introducing: Adam Thomas…

    TFW welcomes Adam Thomas to our Editorial Collective. Adam Thomas is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at University of California, Irvine, with a...

  • Regrets: Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro

    We regret the passing of Geraldine Ferraro, who died on Saturday, 24 March, at the age of 75. In 1984, Congresswoman Ferraro made history when,...

  • Up a Tree

    All things being equal (which they rarely are), U.S. military intervention in Libya should pay off to the decided advantage of this North African nation’s...

  • Special Message from the Editors: Welcome, Dr. Tamura Lomax

    The Feminist Wire is proud to welcome Dr. Tamura Lomax aboard! Congratulations to Tamura for a brilliantly successful dissertation defense at Vanderbilt University on Monday,...

  • Special Message from the Editors

    We are delighted that our colleague and Editorial Collective member—Nahum Chandler—and his family—his wife Ayumi and their son Aaron—are doing fine. Residents of Kyoto, Japan,...

  • Where Are We?

    It is even past my bed time at 3 o’clock, Thursday morning, 10 March 2011. But if we’re reading this right, we all have miles...

  • Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too

    In the world of newspapers, “beneath the fold” apparently means that the feature bears only secondary interest or importance compared to what is situated above...

  • James Baldwin: Still So Much To Teach Us

    More GRITtv “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which...

  • Foreign Policies

    According to operatic lore, the inauguration of the Suez Canal and the opening of the Cairo Opera were supposed to have occurred conjointly with the...

  • Scales and Measures

    I’ve awakened early the last few days because school started in earnest this week. Funny thing how the oldest habits linger (this particular one has...

  • Truth or Consequences

    A self-described “Blue-Dog” Democrat, Arizona’s “Gabby” Giffords likely did not know her assailant, nor, ironically, that in 2007, she had written him, as one of...

  • Tribute to Bernie Sanders

    On Friday, 10 December, one of the most remarkable instances of civic responsibility was televised on C-Span. Bernie Sanders, Junior Senator from the state of...