Black Women
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And The Beat Goes On: Toni Cade Bambara
Dr. Gloria I. Joseph: Toni Cade Bambara’s talents and intellect were indeed, outstanding. Her range of knowledge was extensive as was repeatedly demonstrated during conversations...
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The Seabirds Don’t Lie
Laura Whitehorn: Rubbish, really, and you showed me so later, narrating the tale of similar idiocies from liberals visiting a Black southern community, romanticizing what...
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Personal is Political: A Letter to Toni
Pearl Cleage: I remember us welcoming our own daughters into our undeniably bohemian lives and wanting them to grow up strong and free. We wanted...
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Toni Cade Bambara: A Woman of and for the People
Michael Simmons: What struck me about Toni during this time was that she was continually engaged in forming organizations that allowed African American artists to...
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Hunger
They say you had the eye; they say you saw into people. They say you came before as shaman or bruja and returned as priestess; they say...
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For Toni and the Sisterhood, with Love…
Denise M. Brown: Her life a stunning example of her belief that “a writer, like any other cultural worker, like any other member of the...
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My TCB Experience 1991-1995
Amadee Braxton: Toni could couch the most subversive or controversial notion into a most matter-of-fact sentence. Like when she told me that “Tragedy” was an...
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Personal is Political: The Art of Getting to the Point
Wesley Brown: A woman asked the honorees why black writers weren’t giving their readers more positive stories about black life. Toni responded immediately, saying, “I’ve...
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A Meditation on Toni Cade Bambara
Sande Smith: To be in the company of your fierce and loving inquiry. Your influence didn’t stop there, though. When I was planning how to...
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On Toni Cade Bambara and the Darren Wilson Jury Decision
We are explicitly clear that our commitment to honoring Toni Cade Bambara is just what we need now and every other heinous time when Black...
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Image Weavers: In Honor of the Spirit of Toni Cade Bambara
NaOme Richardson: Consequently TCB opened the door of learning how to express oneself through words and images for several of the women who became Image...
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Personal is Political: Permission
Tina Morton: So fast-forward 20 years later. I quit my job as an x-ray tech, went to graduate school for film, and am now an...
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Becoming…
Nikki Harmon: When all my dreams were up for grabs, when youth and energy and the righteousness of self-expression defined my existence. When art...
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No Doubt: Your Mission, if You Choose to Accept it, is to Make Revolution Irresistible
Nadine Patterson: Her knowledge was all-encompassing. And then she would break it down. To paraphrase her: “Everyone in Western culture dreams in five parts. There...
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Stroller (A Screenplay)
Roxana Walker-Canton: Natalie sits in her own seat in front of her mother and looks out the window. Mostly WHITE PEOPLE get on and off...
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Black Blessings: Toni Cade Bambara and Octavia E. Butler
Ayana A. H. Jamieson: I never had a chance to meet these two women in person, but they exist in the imaginal spaces created by...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
So when The Salt Eaters or any of Toni Cade Bambara’s life-saving works fall off my bookshelf, or a scene from her literary creation shows...
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Unleashing the Power of the Soul: Spirit and Spirituality through Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters and John Bolling’s The Spirit of the Soul (Part II)
Dr. Janice Liddell: This is the power that Bambara reclaims for women and this power is the “force” of the novel. Minnie, as healer, in...
