All posts tagged "assata shakur"
-
Global Blackness
The following remarks were read at the Black Life Matters conference in Tucson, Arizona, on January 15, 2015. Good morning, everyone. I’m sorry I couldn’t...
-
Towards Freedom from Violence: Queer and Trans People of Color Activism in the U.S.
By Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez As a queer migrant who got asylum based on my sexuality, I often feel exiled from progressive environments in the United States....
-
Personal is Political: How Assata Shakur Changed My Life: The Importance Of Ethnic Studies Curricula In High School And Beyond
Yet it wasn’t just Shakur’s story that impacted me, it was the way she wrote it. She seamlessly weaves the story of her childhood in...
-
COLLEGE FEMINISMS: For Darker Sisters
By Ahmad Greene-Hayes I am the great-great-great grandson of former enslaved Georgians—the Johnson family to be exact. I come from a lineage of individuals whom...
-
Assata Shakur is Welcome Here: Bringing Political Prisoners Back Into the Fold
By Meron Wondwosen Every generation honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers—Mignon McLaughlin It was November 5th 2005 and my first cousin was...
-
Assata’s living monument of love, a found poem for Trayvon and all kids who die* by Vanessa Huang
by Vanessa Huang we are all temporary. i’ll bow to beyond, and the miracles supporting us. maybe your bodies’ll be lluvia, a conscious accumulation de...
-
Table of Contents for "A Celebration of Assata and the Black Radical Tradition"
Here is a list of the articles that appeared in our forum, “Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition,” offered with gratitude to each...
-
Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
-
What Will It Take to Free Our Political Prisoners?
By Liz Derias The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), a revolutionary organization based in the u.s. that fights to uphold the self-determination and the human...
-
Dear Assata…
By Tamara Curl-Green Dear Assata, I would like to let you know that your story sparked a change in my life. It was frightening and...
-
We are Assata
Quincy Scott Jones We are braces and birthdays weekend barbeques commuter traffic and job interviews beauty salon barber shops the doorbell on a...
-
On Assata
By Darol Kay I can’t quite pinpoint my first memory of Assata Shakur. Her story was not included in the endless number of VHS tapes...
-
What Assata Means to Me….
By Layla Kristy Feghali “i have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know anything at...
-
Assata: The Rose That Grew from Concrete
by Rizvana Bradley The trial scene that concludes the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God glimpses a specific form of panoptic enclosure that has given...
-
Assata, Radicalism and Love
By Jessica Horn To meditate on the meaning of Assata Shakur is to meditate on the meaning of a vibrant tradition of revolutionary black women’s...
-
Guided Home to Port: Assata Shakur, State Terror, and Black Resistance
By Connie Wun Domestic Terror: On May 2, 2013, the FBI placed Assata Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist list and, with the help of...
-
Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
-
Press Release: A Letter to Barack Obama (change.org)
The Feminist Wire supports the petition below. To add your name, please visit change.org. For more on Assata Shakur from us, please see forthcoming articles celebrating her...
