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EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford
By Guest Contributor on March 28, 2016
By Keisha Blain Adelaide Casely Hayford was, as she once described herself, a “race woman through and through.” Like Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Una Marson, and...
Dancing While Black
By Aimee M. Cox on May 30, 2014
My friend read the letters DWB on my computer screen, assumed they were the acronym for “driving while black” and wondered what racial profiling had...
Una Marson: An Anti-Colonial, Feminist, Anti-Racist, Pan-Africanist Champion of Good Causes
By Guest Contributor on March 19, 2014
By Lisa Tomlinson No more moaning and groaning No more self-hatred masquerading as integration. No more rejecting your own Ethiop’s child for somebody else’s Barbie...
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Feminists We Love: Yaba Blay (Video)
By Heidi R. Lewis on August 9, 2013
Yaba Blay is the Co-Director of Africana Studies and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University. After earning a B.A. in Psychology from Salisbury...
Radical Birthwork as an Act of Resistance
By Guest Contributor on April 11, 2013
By Ynanna Djehuty I like to open with definitions. The usage of words and knowing the weight they hold is important to all discourse, regardless...

EMERGING FEMINISMS, A Historical Note: Pan-African Feminist Adelaide Casely Hayford