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"Harlem," The New Sitcom by "Girls Trip" Writer Tracy Oliver, Just Might Be the Fluffy-Lighthearted TV Fare Black Women Need in these “Post-Pandemic” Tim
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(TV)
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... the world something else as well: another viewpoint of modern African American women told through the Black-American woman’s eyes.
Header: screenshot from youtube
Middle and bottom photos: Prime ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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Celebrated Author and Intersectional Feminist bell hooks Has Died
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(Feminism)
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... which explored her transition to the role. In 2010 the college opened the bell hooks Institute in her honor, which currently holds her personal collections of artifacts, African-American art, and copies ...
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Created on 15 December 2021
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South African Soul-Rocker Tuelo Honors her Mother in Video for “Saint Margaret”
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(Music)
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... her voice to create soulful art-rock, inspired by the traditions of South African protest music and the polyrhythms and tonalities of her native Tswana and Khoikhoi tribes.
The song was originally released ...
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Created on 27 October 2021
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You’re Invited: Celebrate "Project Runway's" Nina Garcia & Help Women Rise Against Violence at Womankind’s Virtual Gal
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(Sponsored)
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... health. In 1994, the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice created the term "Reproductive Justice", because the movement at the time did not include an intersectional analysis that considered ...
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Created on 14 October 2021
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Say Their Name: "My Name is Pauli Murray" Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen, Talk About the Amazing Life of the Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, and Gender-Bending Episcopal Priest, and Their Impact on ...
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(Feminism)
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... of African-American writer and civil-rights activist Pauli Murray. Born in 1910, the Baltimore Maryland native struggled with her sexuality and gender identity their whole life. A graduate of Howard University ...
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Created on 13 September 2021
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How Sarah Baartman’s hips went from a symbol of exploitation to a source of empowerment for Black women
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(Feminism)
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... hips Gotta hop into my jeans like I hop into my whip, yeah
The celebration of Sarah Baartman’s features marks a departure from her historical image.
Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman was an African woman ...
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Created on 20 August 2021
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I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E: Zaila Avant-garde Is the First African-American to Win the Spelling Bee--And She's Also A Basketball Prodigy ...
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(Entertainment)
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Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American winner of the Scripp’s National Spelling Bee on Thursday, and is quickly becoming America’s favorite (and most interesting) 14-year-old.
After unsuccessfully ...
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Created on 12 July 2021
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Monique DeBose Celebrates "Brown Beauty" In Her Newest Music Video: BUST Intervie
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(Music)
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... of musical about my experiences growing up as a mixed-race woman; my mom is Irish-American and my dad is African-American. I wrote a body of work and then decided I didn’t want to do that. I then wrote ...
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Created on 25 June 2021
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Happy Birthday, Octavia Butler! 4 Powerful Life Lessons From the Renowned Science Fiction And Afrofuturistic Feminist Writer
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(Living)
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... as an African-American woman marked by a particular history"—which she later termed as "writing myself in,” according to The New York Times. Butler’s stories, therefore, were typically written from the ...
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Created on 22 June 2021
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Kara Walker Helped Define An Entire Generation Of Black Creators—Now, Her Artwork Is On Full Display For The First Time
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(Arts)
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... she found in the silhouette. The silhouette cutout has a bourgeois, feminine tradition and was also practiced in the United States in the 19th century by African Americans. It was considered a handicraft, ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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Another Black Trans Woman Was Murdered. Here Are 10 Black Trans-Led Organizations To Support Right Now.
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(Feminism)
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2. Black Trans Women, Inc. - BTWI is a national nonprofit organization that works to address the concerns facing African American ...
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Created on 15 April 2021
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Jennifer Mack-Watkins's Newest Exhibit is An Ode to the Beauty of Black Yout
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(Arts)
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... around an African-American schoolgirl who was told to "recite a white-written poem while holding a caricatured Black doll…," and thus decided to use doll-imagery as the basis for her central theme. Such ...
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Created on 08 April 2021
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Morgan Jerkins' Debut Novel, "Caul Baby," Is A Healing Work of Black Family Folklor
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(Books)
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Morgan Jerkins’ Caul Baby is an expansive, folklorish tale of two families—both headed by Black matriarchs—that intertwine for over 20 years. The Melancons are born with a “caul”—a special extra layer ...
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Created on 06 April 2021
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Hair Art: The Morbid Trend That Dominated the Victorian Era
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(Living)
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... been used in African-American and African-diasporic art to express the Black experience, as beautifully exemplified today by artist Laetitia KY. And the next time you bristle at the tangled clumps in your ...
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Created on 05 April 2021
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Fashion Nova's $1 Million "Women On Top" Campaign Demonstrates How The Brand Can't Stop Exploiting Black Wo
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(Feminism)
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... and body type. Even Fashion Nova’s marketing strategies particularly target Black women consumers through urban music, blogs, influencers, and the flagrant utilization of African-American Vernacular English ...
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Created on 25 March 2021
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Why We Love The Cozy Quilted Trend And These Three Designers Who Are Nailing It
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(Style)
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... and many patchwork styles are inextricably intertwined with African culture, history, and diaspora. Following in the steps of the Gee’s Bend quiltmakers and the women of Namibia’s Herero tribe, Nsikak’s ...
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Created on 10 March 2021
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How She Shreds Is Helping Women Of Color Heal (And Learn Guitar) During A Pandemic
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(Music)
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... especially Hispanic women who “are at a higher risk for depression than Caucasian and African American women.”
So how does one grapple with pandemic woes? Two words: sore fingers. Before this unravels ...
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Created on 19 February 2021
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Catch First Time Directorial Debuts From Questlove to Rebecca Hall, 10 Must-See Films From Sundance 2021
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(Entertainment)
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... Rebecca Hall’s sophisticated directorial debut film PASSING is a meditation on race, repression and jealousy. Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) a refined, upper-class 1920s African American woman runs into ...
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Created on 12 February 2021
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Nikole Hannah-Jones on "The 1619 Project's" Genesis, Backlash And What's N
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(Feminism)
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... “Beyoncé of Journalism” had a single, simple goal in mind when creating her historical collection of essays, poetry, and multimedia stories about the 400th anniversary of the year enslaved Africans set ...
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Created on 14 January 2021
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PJ Harvey Goes Into a Capitalist Whirlwind With New Film A Dog Called Money
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(Blog)
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... / A Dog Called Money
When her and Murphy document life in Washington D.C. they focus on the neglect and poverty experienced by the African American communities living separately but in close proximity ...
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Created on 16 December 2020
