Journalist and activist JoNina Abron-Ervin spoke with Black Women Radicals’ Lead Editor of Black Feminist Histories and Movements, Karla Méndez to discuss her new book, Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era, which examines her experience being the last editor of the Black Panther newspaper and the importance of everyday people in liberatory movements.
Read MoreBlack Women Radicals is in solidarity with Black Brazilian women’s long-standing, collective, and ongoing struggle for human rights.
Read MoreIn the latest installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Priyanka Kotamraju analyzes how Dalit feminists conceptualized a programmatic statement of their beliefs and a concrete manifesto of their actions and used the Combahee River Collective’s Black feminist statement as a roadmap to articulate their politics.
Read MoreDr. Ashley Farmer, author of the forthcoming biography, Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, will lead a teach-in for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the radical leadership of Queen Moore.
Read MoreIn the latest installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, scholar Olivia Polk reflects on the Combahee River Collective’s emergent strategic practices for building relationships, and complexifying our imagination in the face of multiscalar legacies of violence.
Read MoreA reading list by Zoe Bambara from the teach-in, “Caretaking as Cultural Work: Lessons from Toni Cade Bambara and Helen Daniel” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreReflecting on the work of photographer and multimedia artist Lorna Simpson.
Read MoreZoe Bambara will lead a teach-in for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the power of caretaking as cultural work.
Read MoreNydia A. Swaby examines and celebrates the life of Amy Ashwood Garvey, a Pan-Africanist activist who co-founded Negro World and the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Read MoreDr. Nydia A. Swaby will lead a teach-in for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the leadership of Jamaican Pan-Africanist and Black Internationalist, Amy Ashwood Garvey.
Read MoreJoin us for our upcoming event in collaboration with the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora titled, “African Feminist Marronage.”
Read MoreJoin us for an upcoming IG Live with Jana Smith, writer and director of Red for Revolution.
Read MoreA reading list by Uche Ezejiofor from their teach-in on “The Essence of Our Movement: Pan-Africanism and Global Black Feminism” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreIn the six installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Sol Elias offers that restoring the transformative power of the Reproductive Justice Movement requires a return to the radical, Black Feminist politics articulated by the Combahee River Collective.
Read MoreWriter Karla Méndez examines the life and work of singer, comedian, actress, and activist, Lady Java, who was a founder of the Transgender Rights Movement.
Read MoreA reading list by Alexis De Veaux from her teach-in on “It’s All in the Reveal: Valerie Maynard, Revelation, and Black (Dis) Belonging” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreAnastácia Flora Oliveira, escritora inaugural da Black Women Radicals programa da Dandara dos Palmares, conversa com Diane Menders, Diretora de Estratégias do Instituto Marielle Franco, sobre a vida, liderança e legado da feminista negra brasileira Marielle Franco.
Read MoreAnastácia Flora Oliveira, Black Women Radicals’ inaugural Dandara dos Palmares Fellow, speaks with Diane Menders, Director of Strategies at the Marielle Franco Institute, about the life, leadership, and legacy of Black Brazilian feminist Marielle Franco.
Read MoreWriter Uche Ezejiofor to lead teach-in on Pan-Africanism and Global Black Feminism for our new teach-in series, “Black Feminist Marroonage” for The School for Black Feminist Politics.
Read MoreJoin us for a new teach-in series for The School for Black Feminist Politics on the power, possibilities, and perseverance of radical Black feminist worldmaking.
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