Black women
Serena Williams’ treatment resonates among black women
September 12, 2018“How much is she supposed to take, really? How much are any of us supposed to keep taking?”
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How black women are organizing to energize voters this fall
September 7, 2018"The revolution done signed my name," they sang, invoking Harriet Tubman, Shirley Chisholm, Aretha Franklin and Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Despite resistance, women of color aim for political power in 2018 and beyond
August 7, 2018Aimee Allison: "Women of color are showing the nation that we are on the cusp of a new progressive and political era in America.”
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Netroots: Leadership of Black women seen as key to 2018 Midterms
August 3, 2018“Black women are off the sidelines. We’re in the game.”
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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ is a powerful posthumous act of resistance
May 11, 2018"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”—Zora Neale Hurston
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