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My Great-Grandmother Ida B. Wells Left a Legacy of Activism in Education

February 25, 2021February 21, 2021 Michelle Duster

As it hones its agenda, the new Biden administration would be wise to focus on racial and economic educational inequality.

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Challenge to his Liberal Allies

February 22, 2021February 21, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the spring

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On the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 19, 2021February 22, 2021 Keelyn Bradley #AudreLorde, black intellectual history, Black political thought, Black Queers, Black Studies, Gender, race, racism, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde  The spectacle of a dying

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Audre Lorde: Meet

February 18, 2021February 22, 2021 Alexis Pauline Gumbs African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, sexuality

1.arrangement “There is a place    here    where the Atlantic meets  the Caribbean and  it is    very magical,  

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Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

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