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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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Fondness for Toni Cade Bambara
Miyoshi Smith: When Toni Cade moved to Philadelphia, I would see her out, at socials…and gosh, she was just a very remarkable person: smart, witty,...
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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...
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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 I)
Dr. Janice Liddell: However, in order for peoples of African descent and people of other “soul centered” cultures (Asian, Indians, Aborigines, etc.) to achieve balance...
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Resembling a Revolutionary: My Sister Toni
Malaika Adero: She read people; she read me. Stopped by my little house in Southwest Atlanta in the mid-80s and said, “You need to go...
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I’ve Got Something To Say About This: A Survival Incantation
Kate Rushin: I see the whole thing played out. I'm bludgeoned, bloody, raped. My story is reduced to filler buried in the back of the...
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Personal is Political: Toni Cade Bambara of Simpson Avenue
Nikky Finney: I knew this tradition. Older Black women handing over younger Black women to the next Black woman in line for her Finishing work....
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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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Remembering Toni
Alice Lovelace: Her questions gently guided me to claim my life as a writer. Through the years, Toni asked me many questions that lead to...
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what is left
M. Nzadi Keita: what you remember/ starts with a smile/ a raw edge/ a single snip/ from the someone dead
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In ‘My Solitude’ with Toni Cade Bambara
Pamela Hooks: She opened my world, opened my eyes. I saw the political and poetry in everything now. Together, Toni and Njeri would break...
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Praise to the Writer
Alice Lovelace: Toni Cade made an art of living/ Toni stood and we were lifted Toni spoke and our lives were saved/ Toni listened and we...
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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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We Remember You, Me and Us: Transgender Day of Remembrance
In reclaiming the body from the biomedical syndicate as well as from the naturopathic types I have been dealing with, the best way I know...
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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...
