All posts tagged "Black Women"
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Feminists We Love: Yaba Blay (Video)
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...
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Don Lemon and the Vilification of Unwed Mothers
By Rabi’a Hakima The intersection between racism and sexism is where a brown-skinned male news anchor can, from his privileged position of maleness, propose to...
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Fiction Feature: "Planets" by Kaitlyn Greenidge
By Kaitlyn Greenidge We the only girls who leave our walk. We the only girls that travel. All the other girls on our walk,...
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White Feminists and Trayvon Martin
By Debra Guckenheimer Gender and racial inequality are intertwined in ways the Trayvon Martin case highlighted. Historically, the safety of White women has been used...
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Feminists We Love: Duchess Harris (Video)
Duchess Harris is Professor and Director of American Studies at Macalester College, where she is also an affiliate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and...
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Trayvon and George: Why This Case is Really about Women
By Kelly Macías Like many other Americans, over the last three weeks I was firmly gripped by the George Zimmerman trial. I watched with anxiety...
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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...
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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...
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Feminists We Love: Rosa Clemente
Rosa Clemente is an Afro-Puerto Rican grassroots community organizer, Hip-Hop activist, independent journalist, and scholar. She is a feminist we love because she boldly continues...
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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...
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“r/evolutionary love sounds: a mixtape for Assata”
By Amina Doherty rev·o·lu·tion noun ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən 1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system; 2. the movement...
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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...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Black Sitcom: A Representation We Can Be Proud Of
By Jeanine Russaw When you look in the mirror, how do you see yourself? In a perfect world, whenever a black woman looks in a mirror,...
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Reading Rachel
By Rashna Batliwala Singh “Are you listening?” Rachel Jeantel asked defense attorney Don West in the trial of George Zimmerman, as he seemed to turn and...
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Thoughts of My Father: Though They Had Been Drivers They Had To Be Forgiven
By Farah Tanis In this country and throughout slave colonies in the Caribbean, South and Central America and Africa, drivers were those Black slaves whom...
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Feminists We Love: Michele Wallace (Video)
Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women’s Studies and Film Studies at the City College of New York and the City University of NY Graduate Center,...
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No “Madea” in Tyler Perry’s New Drama, “The Haves and the Have-Nots,” But Still, a Muddle of a Mess
By Lillie Anne Brown Ok, let me just start by acknowledging what I get: I get that Tyler Perry provides excellent employment opportunities for people of...
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An Open Letter to Kiera Wilmot and Other Black Girls Who Have Considered Giving Up When Their Science Projects and Assata Shakur Are Enuf
By j.n. salters Dear Kiera, Much like the hundreds of thousands of supporters who made phone calls, sent emails, and signed petitions urging prosecutors to drop...
