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The Lemonade Reader: Black Feminists Read Beyoncé
THE MAKING OF A NEW ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST WORKING CLASS; #Feminism4the99
Black Feminism and Black Moses, Part II
On #survivingrkelly: deconstruction, accountability, and a #networkofpredation
A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
The Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an Anti-Racist Professional Ethics for White Women’s Studies Directors
The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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The Global Imagination of James Baldwin
This interview between Sean Jacobs, professor and founder of the blog africasacountry.com, and Rich Blint, was first published at the interviewer’s site and appears here...
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London Diary
It’s a chilly spring weekend in London, although the cold this time of year is not unprecedented, and tourists by the busload descend on Piccadilly...
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Spotlight Poet: Ladan Osman
For the Woman whose Love is a Bird of Passage————- I am so poor before you. A grackle / whose colors are as good as...
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“Say What?!” N.J. Governor Christie’s Proposed Cuts to Medicaid Changes Eligibility from $24,645 to $5,317 for a Family of Three!
By Joy Schulman MEDICAID/MEDICARE—it’s all so confusing! What are we talking about?? Recently, Medicare and Medicaid have often been used interchangeably; though they are quite...
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Eddie Long, Creflo Dollar, and the Black Church's Sanctioning of Sexual Violence
In September 2010 Bishop Eddie Long, prominent Atlanta pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, was accused of sexual improprieties with four young men—Anthony Flagg, Spencer...
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Music Spotlight: Diallo Hall Introduces Singer Liz Ogumbo
By Diallo Hall Music has been central to the very existence of the Luo people of East Africa since the dawn of time. Their songs...
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?
By Monica J. Casper and William Paul Simmons On May 14th, a troubling incident occurred in an expensive hotel room in Manhattan. International Monetary Fund...
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Playing Games with Race
by Omar Ricks NOTE: This article expands on a comment on Prof. Hortense Spillers’ article Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too published on The Feminist Wire on...
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Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge
We are I delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge, edited by our very own, Monica Casper, and...
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Compassionate Feminism
A practice in compassion is, particularly for myself as a woman, an act of feminism. If I turn my practice inward, if I look to...
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Featured Poet: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces — Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees. / Spring so uneasy this year. / No matter morning’s boundary...
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Gender-Neutral or Wishful Thinking?
Can we raise gender-neutral children? A Toronto couple is attempting to do just that. Kathy Witterick and David Stocker have decided to allow their third...
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Who’s Afraid of Mildred Pierce?
One of the central premises of Betty Friedan’s germinal text, The Feminine Mystique(1963), is that the robust effort to restore American women to their rightful...
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The Mildred Patricia Baena Story
By Allison McCarthy A sketch from Monday night’s episode of Lopez Tonight is grabbing entertainment headlines. Comedian George Lopez claimed to have a world exclusive...
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Artist Spotlight: Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Untitled 2011 Oil 20” by 20” La Mecedora #2 2009 Oil 40” by 40” Ghana 2008 Mixed Media 35” by 48” Ines P....
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Flexing (Neo)Liberal Muscles
The British Deputy Prime Minister and coalition minority leader Nick Clegg has had a tough year. Like many advocates of his party, the Liberal Democrats,...
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Gay and Transgender Prophets—Telling the Truth
By T.J. Williams In recent years I have committed myself to the work of justice that speaks loudly and boldly to proclaim that God is...
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Cornel West and the Crisis in Black Leadership
By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou The recent controversy ignited by Cornel West’s critique of President Barack Obama and subsequent critiques of Dr. West reveal a...
