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#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
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Rape, American Style
By Sikivu Hutchinson On Violent Silence: When I was five years old I was sexually assaulted by neighbors. Ours was a tranquil post-white flight neighborhood...
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Shades of Darkness
In this globalizing world made possible largely through the social media, it is not difficult to follow what is happening in any part of the...
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Cheryl Clarke: Selected Poems
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? Black Men (always in progress) living as a lesbian on 49’s final eve ...
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Census Bureau Rethinks Ways To Measure Race
Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their...
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TFW: The Year in Review
With the intertwined mission of fostering feminist, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist perspectives, 2012 gave our contributors no shortage of topics about which to write. We saw...
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Django Unchained: A Critical Conversation Between Two Friends
By David J. Leonard and Tamura A. Lomax There have been so many great discussions on Django Unchained, so many thoughtful and engaging articles, and even...
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Elite Women Won’t Help Us All Have it All
By Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Michele Tracy Berger, and Julia Jordan-Zachery Anne-Marie Slaughter is right! Women can’t have it all, particularly not if our hope for having...
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In Defense of Pole Dancing
By Kira Jane Admitting to it causes the first onset of swine flu-like symptoms: the beads of sweat, searchlight eyeballs, shivers to rival a damp...
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Gratefulness
The holiday season is not just about gifts and Santa Claus, it’s about being grateful for what you have and recognizing the people who are...
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Talking About Grief and Violence
From the editors: Here at TFW, we have many, many email and phone conversations that never make their way onto our site. We bounce ideas...
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Black Feminist Intellectual: A Conversation with Professor Imani Perry
DM: At present, you hold a primary appointment as a Professor within the Center for African American Studies and a secondary appointment in Law and Public...
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South Korea elects first female president
When Park Geun-hye last lived in the presidential Blue House more than 30 years ago, she was a young, stand-in first lady, serving after...
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Navajo man wants the nation to hear its official apology
Buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriations Act, after pages on the maintenance and operation of the U.S. military, is an official...
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Book Review: 101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive
101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive (ebook) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin The form...
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Black Survival in the Uchromatic Dark
By Tavia Nyong’o With all the rock dinosaurs that thundered the Madison Square Garden dome during Wednesday’s 12-12-12 benefit concert, a viewer might have missed...
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Pageantry
By Petrina Crockford The first summer our dads were in Afghanistan, our moms on the base got together and organized a parade and pageant. Streamers...
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Nice White Boys Next Door and Mass Murder
Standing in line at the California Science Center the day of the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary school, my students wondered aloud about the...
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Lily and Michelle
By Cynthia Tavilla Our children will not meet our every expectation, fulfill our every dream, or follow our agenda. Our children live out their own...