Feminism
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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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Personal is Political: Toni Cade Bambara’s “Toni-Isms”
Carole Brown: You have touched thousands of aspiring and seasoned writers, students, and just plain folks worldwide. Your fame has never taken the place of...
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Feminists We Love: Toni Cade Bambara
Heidi R. Lewis: Toni Cade Bambara gave me a feminism that was Black—a feminism that was loud, strong, collective, vulnerable, powerful, communal, honest, and intimate,...
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Toni Cade Bambara’s Art of Bridging Praxis and Theory
Thabiti Lewis: Young feminists need to pay more attention to Bambara’s fiction and essays, which reveal a pioneering voice that betrothed answers to the range...
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It’s Not the Salt; it’s the Sugar that Will Kill You
Kalamu ya Salaam: This Toni was never going to win major awards, never going to be enshrined in the academy. This Toni would look back...
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A State of Rage (for Toni Cade Bambara)
I am tired of the silences that have been imposed on us. Shhhhh. Black women and girls. I am tired of the silences that we, Black...
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Listen You Can Hear the Mothers Crying in the Universe: A Black Feminist Poet’s Requiem for Our Black Warrior Toni
Cara Page: This is a tribute to the Black Feminist Warrior Toni Cade Bambara and her insightful vision to rename place, resiliency and spirit of...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
In spite of the aforementioned examples of blatant and often grotesque, sexism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, and homophobia practiced in many (not all) organized religions, there...
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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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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...
