Jamie Foxx’s woman told him to apologize because I know that his sister didn’t!
Jennifer Aniston tried to play in Black people’s faces.
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In honor of Claudia Jones' 108th birthday this week, for #CiteBlackWomenSunday , we are revisiting Carole Boyce Davies' biography of Claudia Jones, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2008).
Today for #CiteBlackWomenSunday , we're diving into Tricia Hersey's (The Nap Ministry), REST IS RESISTANCE: A MANIFESTO (2022). Here's a thread of our favorite quotes:
Today for #CiteBlackWomenSunday , we're reading Ann Petry's The Street (1946), which tells the story of Lutie Johnson, a single Black mother living and working in Harlem, who must navigate racist discrimination and sexual predation to secure a life for herself and her son, Bub.
Today for #CiteBlackWomenSunday , we're reading We Were There (2021) by Patricia Romney (Pat Romney), a former member of the Third World Women's Alliance (1968-1980). It is a dynamic history of the TWWA, and its vital impact on intersectional feminist activism in the 1970s.
Today for #CiteBlackWomenSunday we are reading Eve L. Ewing's (Eve L. Ewing used to go by wikipedia brown) 1919, a collection of poems that explores the narrative surrounding The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, which was a part of the many race riots that swept across the US, known as the 'Red Summer.'
Today for #CiteBlackWomenSunday , we're revisiting _How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective_ (2017), edited and introduced by Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor).
4) Honoring #ZNH for Cite Black Women. #citeblackwomensunday : As I became a #BlackAnthropologist Assoc4BlackAnthro member, it was clear I was “following Zora’s footsteps.” All will be revealed 1/17 on American Experience The OpEd Project American Anthropological Association @ExchangeAlumni Tracy Heather Strain Insight News
Today we return to Christina Sharpe’s text, In the Wake (2016), which situates contemporary anti-Black violence and death as a part of the “still unfolding aftermaths of Atlantic chattel slavery” (2).
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5) Lifting up #blackwoman #filmmaker #TracyStrain Tracy Heather Strain on #citeblackwomensunday . She directed American Experience film on #ZoraNealeHurston -airs Jan 17. Cite Black Women. Assoc4BlackAnthro Insight News American Anthropological Association Anthropology News UF Anthropology UMass Amherst SCUA W. E. B. Du Bois Dept. of Afro American Studies W. E. B. Du Bois Center
My word! Just finished reading this book. Highly recommend it. Check out the audiobook as well. Her writing and reading of her poetry are exquisite! Will be returning to this collection over and over again. #citeBlackwomen Sunday #citeBlackwomen
Normalize not posting things you’ve found in literature, seen on the internet, or even heard in conversation without citing the original source. Treasured teachers HeRbonyjanice, would say, “cite Black women.” Thea Monyee would say, “cite the spark.” 💡 #CiteBlackWomenSunday