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Toni’s Powerful Intervention: Artist Tom Feelings Talks with His Son
Kamili and Tom Feelings: As members of “progressive” communities, these kinds of interventions can be embarrassing. We flatter ourselves into thinking that “we’re all right”...
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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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a spell to save your life
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: eat salt not that ocean drowning snack to stop thinking about dying unintentional salt
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The Weight in Being Well: The Salt Eaters and the Genius of Toni Cade Bambara
Joel Diaz and Steven G. Fullwood: Toni Morrison once said of Bambara is that she writes black. To me, she meant black people, black bodies,...
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Are we ready to be well?
Cara Page: She asks us to be well/ to love ourselves and one another/ So that we are all safe and loved.
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Exposing the Invisible Betrayal: Removing the Gag from Our Mouths and Speaking of the Police Rapes of Black Women
Farah Tanis: Tell me what freedom fighter, what human rights defender has ever had to ask—can I stand up? With or without your permission I’m...
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Personal is Political: TCB Is What She Did and Was Who She Was
It was at the National Conference of African American writers held on the campus of Howard University in 1974 that she read her short story...
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Personal is Political: Reflections on Toni Cade Bambara
S. E. Anderson and Rosemari Mealy: Hearing Toni’s voice in her poetry presentations was both serious-determined with a jazzy lyrical flava. I strongly believe Sista...
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Toni Cade Bambara—A Member of My Small Village
Sarah C. Poindexter: Your impact transcending my small village to persons near and wide—a whole world of people had read your books, watched your films,...
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The Authenticating Audience
Louis Massiah: On the contrary, when art is understood as a mode of political work, with the explicit goal of communicating a needed counter-narrative or...
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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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Laughing on the Other Side of the Mountain: A Love Letter to My Friend Toni Cade Bambara
Ayoka Chenzira: We were more excited to see each other than to hear what was being said to us by industry leaders whose real job...
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Love Note for Toni Cade Bambara
Zeinabu irene Davis: I still feel you with me when I am watching films in the dark. I will always remember how I would watch...
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Photographs of Toni Cade Bambara & Friends
Photo griot Susan J. Ross shares photographs of Toni Cade Bambara and her friends during this forum celebration.
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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...
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Personal is Political: Toni Cade Bambara
Paula J. Giddings: The relevance of the to-do list, nearly a half-century later is remarkable; the sensibility definitely our own; and the attitude shaped the...
