A study and tribute to the radical feminism of community leader and activist, Olive Morris.
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Reflecting on the extraordinary life of Dr. Edith Irby Jones–a trailblazing physician, civil rights activist, and the first Black American to break through several of the most entrenched racial barriers in Southern education and medicine.
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Tracing the life and work of poet Lucille Clifton and her roots in ancestry, radical truth-telling, and memory.
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Revolutionary Yolanda Guzmán’s courageous fight against dictatorship and imperialism reveals the struggles shaping Dominican democracy.
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Exploring the radical feminist imagination of Ama Ata Aidoo, whose stories of womanhood, freedom, and belonging reshaped African feminism.
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Tracing the arc of the novelist, journalist, and activist Louise Meriwether, from her literary achievements to her involvement in Black political and artistic communities.
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Honoring the life and legacy of fierce artist, filmmaker, and archivist, Camille Billops, who made it her mission to preserve what the world tried to erase.
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In honor of the publication of her book, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores, writer and bookseller, Katie Mitchell discusses the importance of Black bookstores, their role as sites of liberation, and community building through books.
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Writer Karla Méndez traces how the political voice of organizer, writer, and diplomat Andrée Blouin was forged through exile, grief, loss, and radical clarity.
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In the final installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Kourtney Payne reflects on the Combahee River Collective and the power of Black feminism praxis as self-naming.
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Celebrating the enduring legacy of resistance and worldmaking at the II Marcha das Mulheres Negras.
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For our final installment for our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, archivist and librarian Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz puts the Combahee River Collective and the Salsa Soul Sisters in conversation with one another as sister organizations who each contributed to 50-years of Black lesbian identity formations with very differing entry points and connections to lesbian identity.
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Black Women Radicals hosted two events in New York City celebrating the 50th anniversary since the founding of the Combahee River Collective with founding member, Demita Frazier.
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For the latest installment for our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, scholar Ra Malika Imhotep examines the politics of Black lesbian socialist feminist kinship and play with Black dolls.
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Celebrating the NYC launch of Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities anthology.
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Our latest t-shirt capsule with Philadelphia PrintWorks honors 45 years since the founding of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first publishing house for and by women of color in North America.
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Six Years of Black Women Radicals: Read Our Impact Report.
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The next teach-in for our Black Feminist Marronage Series will be led by storyteller Sylvia Arthur, who will chronicle the lives and archival afterlives of West African women elders.
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For the latest installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, Kiersten TâLéigh Gillette-Pierce examines the harmful impacts of biological essentialism, benevolent cisheterosexsim, and anti-Black and anti-Trans affective labor in the Black Reproductive Justice Movement in a radical pamphlet.
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From her roots as the daughter of sharecroppers to her leadership in the welfare rights movement, Johnnie Tillmon redefined feminism through the lens of Black motherhood, economic justice, and political resistance.
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