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How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City

August 15, 2022August 11, 2022 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #StreetsBelongToUs, black protest, Black women, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us In a statement both

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Introduction: Black Women and Reproductive Rights

August 1, 2022July 29, 2022 Hettie Williams #ReproductiveRights, Black women, health, reproductive justice, Supreme Court

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” “The Constitution does not confer a right

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Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, and the NAARPR

June 15, 2022June 14, 2022 Tony Pecinovsky abolition, Angela Davis, Charlene Mitchell, Communism, CPUSA, JoAnne Little, National Defense Organization Against Racist And Political Repression, Prison Abolition

In June 1972, an all-white jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges in her alleged role in an August 1970 Marin County, California

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Seeing May Ayim through Her Friends’ Eyes

June 13, 2022June 12, 2022 Tiffany Florvil black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women

Black German poet and activist May Ayim would have turned sixty-two years old on May 3. She was born in

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Self-Revision as Praxis

June 7, 2022June 16, 2022 Sherry Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackWomenBio, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women

The ax forgets, but the tree remembers. – African proverb “Forgetting is the true death.” – Mama Koko Zauditu Selassie,

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