Racism
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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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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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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...
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Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
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Assata, Radicalism and Love
By Jessica Horn To meditate on the meaning of Assata Shakur is to meditate on the meaning of a vibrant tradition of revolutionary black women’s...
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Guided Home to Port: Assata Shakur, State Terror, and Black Resistance
By Connie Wun Domestic Terror: On May 2, 2013, the FBI placed Assata Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist list and, with the help of...
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Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
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3 Reasons Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Moral Mondays in North Carolina
“Grotesque” is the word the New York Times used in an editorial today to describe North Carolina politics. I can think of some others. In...
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Reading Rachel
By Rashna Batliwala Singh “Are you listening?” Rachel Jeantel asked defense attorney Don West in the trial of George Zimmerman, as he seemed to turn and...
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Dispatch from the 'Very House of Difference': Anti-Black Racism and the Expansion of Sexual Citizenship – OR – We Need to Do So Much Better at Loving Each Other
By Kai M. Green and Treva Ellison We (Treva and Kai) are Black, queer, trans, and anti-capitalist scholars, activists, and artists based in Los Angeles,...
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Paula Deen's Comfort Food
Paula Deen. Paula Deen. From a titan of the down home cooking industry, $17 million dollars strong, with books and TV shows and a product...
