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Author’s Response: The Power of Black Women’s Fury

May 12, 2026April 26, 2026 Kali Nicole Gross

I am indebted to the scholars who read Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times (Seal,

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Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

September 10, 2021September 8, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black lives matter, education, Resistance

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

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The Power of Black Motherhood during COVID-19 and the Uprisings

October 16, 2020October 13, 2020 Assata Gonzalez #Autoethnographies, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, race, racism, white supremacy

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

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