Queer activist, organizer, and movement journalist, Clarissa Brooks (she/her/hers) is here to remind HBCUs and students alike that respectability politics, symbolic representation, and the limiting narrative of ‘Black Excellence’ will not save us.
Read MoreDestiny Harris (who uses all pronouns) is tired of the erasure of queer students, organizing, and leadership at HBCUs.
Read MoreBlack women have led the call for reparations since emancipation, but what are politicians, scholars, and activists saying about it today? By holding up the present moment against movement leaders of the past, it became clear to me, among other things, that politically-neutered personal appeals to non-Black, non-enslaved African descended audiences aren’t what we need.
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