Black Women
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Dissing DuVernay and the Lessons of Selma
Every child in the U.S. should be required to see Selma for at least two reasons. First, Ava DuVernay’s powerhouse film captures the political complexities...
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Global Blackness
The following remarks were read at the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona, on January 15, 2015. Good morning, everyone. I’m sorry I couldn’t...
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White People for Black Lives
By Zillah Eisenstein Revolutionary imagination is the most dangerous and therefore meaningful thing any of us have to offer. So I am writing in support...
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Feminists We Love: Dr. Kristie Dotson
Dr. Kristie Dotson, "If you are not willing to read the nuances of Black women’s social theory outside of some framework that a European philosopher...
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An Interview with Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist
Monica: I first became aware of your work through the Black Infant Mortality Awareness Walk. Can you tell me more about the circumstances that prompted...
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Breaking News: An Open Letter of Love to Black Students: #BlackLivesMatter Dec
By blackspaceblog We are Black professors. We are daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews, godchildren, grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, and mothers. We’re writing to tell...
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Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore
In January 2015, The Feminist Wire and the University of Arizona will co-host the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona. Free and open to...
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs Honor Audre Lorde in Feminist Studies
TFW's Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Alexis Pauline Gumbs honor Black Lesbian Feminist Mother Warrior Poet Audre Lorde in the 80th anniversary year of her birth...
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Love Note to Toni
Beverly Guy-Sheftall: So, five years after you joined the ancestors, the Women’s Center calls your name and honors your work. We celebrate with your friends,...
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Feminists We Love: Linda Janet Holmes [VIDEO]
Linda Janet Holmes is Toni Cade Bambara's first biographer and she is an incredible storyteller. During our interview, Linda shared so much about Toni's incredible...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘…an uptown Griot’
Cheryl Clarke: The Black Woman: An Anthology from 1970, which Toni edited...is still one of the books I live by. Really, until Barbara Smith and...
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Liberation Legacy: Fifteen Years of the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Program and Conferences at Spelman College, 2000-2015
M. Bahati Kuumba and Malika Redmond: The Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference happens in March during Women’s History Month on or near Bambara’s birthday. ...
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Personal is Political: How Toni Cade Bambara Saved Me
Imani Uzuri: I spent many stolen hours crying in a quiet gazebo meditating on the wide sky and trying to understand who I was becoming,...
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Personal is Political: Wholeness, Homeness: A Love Note to Toni
Rita Dove: So my first meeting with Toni occurred under the glare of bright lights; and though I don’t recall what words were exchanged—the welcoming...
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Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara
Sonia Sanchez: What are we pretending not to know today? The premise as you said, my sister, being that colored people on planet earth really...
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Toni Cade Bambara: The Moment In-Between
Eleanor Traylor: Since then, we became communicants like those described in “the Johnson Girls” in Gorilla. And our talk, like those girls, was self-fashioning talk....
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Bambara: What She Meant To Us/Me
There is brilliance and bravery written here, among the cultures of masculinity and “men run it.” There is a clear message here for the youthful...
