All posts by Guest Contributor
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White Female Jurors and Florida Justice
By Zillah Eisenstein I am white and female, like the almost-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. But I am also an anti-racist...
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Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
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What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human...
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Dear Assata…
By Tamara Curl-Green Dear Assata, I would like to let you know that your story sparked a change in my life. It was frightening and...
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We are Assata
Quincy Scott Jones We are braces and birthdays weekend barbeques commuter traffic and job interviews beauty salon barber shops the doorbell on a...
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What Assata Shakur Means to Me
By Randall C. Bailey As I have reviewed the life of Assata Shakur, I am reminded of the history of Black struggles in the US...
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Coming Home.
By Happy Mwende Kinyili My name is Mwende and I am a woman. These identities – woman, Kamba, young, sweet – have come easy to...
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The Black as the Thing in Deck-Erinnerung
By Athi Mongezeleli Joja “For the Negro who works on a sugar plantation in Le Robert, there is only one solution: to fight.” – Frantz...
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What Assata Means to Me
By Amira Davis The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., was, for me, a politicizing moment. It was then I realized, you could die for...
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A Matter of Time
By Amira Davis “I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?” Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the visions of men,...
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An Open Love Note to My Son: On Mourning, Love, and Black Motherhood
By Christen Smith Raising Black children – female and male – in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If...
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On Assata
By Darol Kay I can’t quite pinpoint my first memory of Assata Shakur. Her story was not included in the endless number of VHS tapes...
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“I Am Not a Slave”: Remembering to Sustain and Connect Our Black Radical Traditions
By Wangui Kimari I am not a slave. Say it again. I am not a slave. These are words that have been getting Afrikans into...
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Sisters in Struggle: An Ode of Love
By Mazuba Haanyama In tribute to the life and legacy of Assata Shakur, we commune here, sisters bound in struggle, reflecting on the myriad of...
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Assata Shakur: She Who Struggles
By Luam Kidane Assata Shakur. she who struggles. Assata Shakur. she who struggles for rupture from colonized thought patterns. thought patterns choreographed to the legacies...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dear Assata: You Are More of a Woman than America Told You
By Christine Ohenewah Recent news about the FBI’s latest addition to their Most Wanted Terrorist list and the strong recommendation of my mentor prompted me...
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Criminalizing Human Rights Work: Assata and the Incarceration of Black Women
By Meron Wondwosen In 1918, one year shy of turning 20 and eight months pregnant, Mary Turner was terrorized by a white lynch mob who...
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What Assata Means to Me….
By Layla Kristy Feghali “i have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know anything at...
