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Upcoming Event: The National Target Boycott & The Erasure of Black Women’s Activism: An IG Live with Nekima Levy Armstrong
Upcoming Event: The National Target Boycott & The Erasure of Black Women’s Activism: An IG Live with Nekima Levy Armstrong

Join us for an upcoming IG Live with Nekima Levy Armstrong, civil rights attorney and co-founder of the National Target Boycott.

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NewsJaimee SwiftMarch 25, 2026News
Upcoming Teach-In–"Becoming Otherwise: Black Trans Feminist Imagination as Spiritual and Political Practice" by Nala Simone Toussaint
Upcoming Teach-In–"Becoming Otherwise: Black Trans Feminist Imagination as Spiritual and Political Practice" by Nala Simone Toussaint

Visionary advocate, healer and public speaker Nala Simone Toussaint will lead a teach-in on the power of the Black Trans Feminist imagination for The School for Black Feminist Politics.

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NewsJaimee SwiftMarch 6, 2026News
Excerpt of The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde by Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad
Excerpt of The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde by Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad

An excerpt of The Fire Inside by Dr. Rima Vesely-Ford, which casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde.

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NewsJaimee SwiftFebruary 17, 2026News
Upcoming Event: For the Love of Our People-Honoring Assata Shakur and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Upcoming Event: For the Love of Our People-Honoring Assata Shakur and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Our upcoming event, “For the Love of Our People” is an ode to the life and legacies of Assata Shakur and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.

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NewsJaimee SwiftFebruary 15, 2026News
Notes on the Radical Black Feminist Imagination: A New Teach-In Series
Notes on the Radical Black Feminist Imagination: A New Teach-In Series

Join us for our new teach-in series on the Radical Black Feminist Imagination for The School for Black Feminist Politics.

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NewsJaimee SwiftFebruary 15, 2026News
Upcoming Event: An Afrofeminist Analysis on Venezuela - An IG Live with Betty Zambrano Zabaleta
Upcoming Event: An Afrofeminist Analysis on Venezuela - An IG Live with Betty Zambrano Zabaleta

Join us for an upcoming IG Live on the U.S. invasion in Venezuela.

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News, PoliticsJaimee SwiftJanuary 12, 2026News, Politics
We Celebrate the Human Spirit Through Movement: Honoring Judith Jamison
We Celebrate the Human Spirit Through Movement: Honoring Judith Jamison

Writer Karla Mendez examines the life of dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison, whose decades-long career indelibly shifted the landscape of dance.

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News, Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 10, 2026News, Society & Culture
Painting Power: The Radical Vision of Vivian Browne
Painting Power: The Radical Vision of Vivian Browne

Examining how Vivian Browne’s art and activism bridged the Black liberation and feminist movements while redefining the politics of representation.

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News, Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 8, 2026News, Society & Culture
Art for the People: Elizabeth Catlett’s Vision of Liberation
Art for the People: Elizabeth Catlett’s Vision of Liberation

Reflecting on the life of Elizabeth Catlett, a pioneering sculptor and printmaker whose work fused art and activism to honor the strength, resilience, and dignity of Black women across the African diaspora.

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Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 8, 2026News, Society & Culture
Olive Morris: A Black Feminist Radical
Olive Morris: A Black Feminist Radical

A study and tribute to the radical feminism of community leader and activist, Olive Morris.

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News, PoliticsJaimee SwiftJanuary 4, 2026News, Politics
Breaking Barriers in Medicine: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Edith Irby Jones
Breaking Barriers in Medicine: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Edith Irby Jones

Reflecting on the extraordinary life of Dr. Edith Irby Jones–a trailblazing physician, civil rights activist, and the first Black American to break through several of the most entrenched racial barriers in Southern education and medicine.

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News, Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 4, 2026News, Society & Culture
Taking Up Space: Ancestry and Lineage in Lucille Clifton's Work
Taking Up Space: Ancestry and Lineage in Lucille Clifton's Work

Tracing the life and work of poet Lucille Clifton and her roots in ancestry, radical truth-telling, and memory.

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News, Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 4, 2026News, Society & Culture
Yolanda Guzmán: Afro-Dominican Resistance in the Shadow of Dictatorship
Yolanda Guzmán: Afro-Dominican Resistance in the Shadow of Dictatorship

Revolutionary Yolanda Guzmán’s courageous fight against dictatorship and imperialism reveals the struggles shaping Dominican democracy.

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PoliticsJaimee SwiftJanuary 3, 2026News, Politics
The Radical Feminist Imagination of Ama Ata Aidoo
The Radical Feminist Imagination of Ama Ata Aidoo

Exploring the radical feminist imagination of Ama Ata Aidoo, whose stories of womanhood, freedom, and belonging reshaped African feminism.

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Society & Culture, PoliticsJaimee SwiftJanuary 3, 2026News, Politics
Louise Meriwether: Writing Ourselves into Existence
Louise Meriwether: Writing Ourselves into Existence

Tracing the arc of the novelist, journalist, and activist Louise Meriwether, from her literary achievements to her involvement in Black political and artistic communities.

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Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 3, 2026News
Camille Billops and the Radical Exposure of Black Intimacies
Camille Billops and the Radical Exposure of Black Intimacies

Honoring the life and legacy of fierce artist, filmmaker, and archivist, Camille Billops, who made it her mission to preserve what the world tried to erase.

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Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 3, 2026News, Society & Culture
Celebrating the Enduring Legacy of Black Bookstores: An Interview with Katie Mitchell, Author of Prose to the People
Celebrating the Enduring Legacy of Black Bookstores: An Interview with Katie Mitchell, Author of Prose to the People

In honor of the publication of her book, Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores, writer and bookseller, Katie Mitchell discusses the importance of Black bookstores, their role as sites of liberation, and community building through books.

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Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 3, 2026News, Society & Culture
Andrée Blouin: Resistance in Exile, Voice in Revolution
Andrée Blouin: Resistance in Exile, Voice in Revolution

Writer Karla Méndez traces how the political voice of organizer, writer, and diplomat Andrée Blouin was forged through exile, grief, loss, and radical clarity.

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Politics, NewsJaimee SwiftJanuary 2, 2026News
In Search of My Foremothers' Garden: The Combahee River Collective and Self-Naming
In Search of My Foremothers' Garden: The Combahee River Collective and Self-Naming

In the final installment of our Special Blog Issue, “50 Years of Combahee”, writer Kourtney Payne reflects on the Combahee River Collective and the power of Black feminism praxis as self-naming.

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Society & CultureJaimee SwiftJanuary 2, 2026News, LGBTQ+
II Marcha das Mulheres Negras: Celebrating the Power of Black Brazilian Feminist Struggles for Reparation and Good Living in Brasília
II Marcha das Mulheres Negras: Celebrating the Power of Black Brazilian Feminist Struggles for Reparation and Good Living in Brasília

Celebrating the enduring legacy of resistance and worldmaking at the II Marcha das Mulheres Negras.

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News, PoliticsJaimee SwiftJanuary 1, 2026News
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