Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Remember the Ladies: Angela Davis
Posted in Womens Herstory Tagged with: Alice Walker, Black Panther Party, civil rights, communist party, feminism, June Jordan, prison industrial complex, racism
Remember the Ladies: Shirley Chisholm
She was, as she put it, “unbought and unbossed.” However, she suffered a series of betrayals that left her furious: “I love a good fight and people know [it]… But what hurst me more than anything else… is the brothers in politics…they won’t get off my back.”
Posted in Womens Herstory Tagged with: Black Panthers, black politicians, feminists, politics, racism, sexism
Remember the Ladies: Cathy Cade
“I moved to San Francisco in 1970 to be part of a larger women’s movement. I came out as a lesbian and began photographing the spring of 1971. I’m still a lesbian and a photographer and still work against racism.”
Posted in Womens Herstory Tagged with: feminism, lesbian, photographer, racism, women's movement, working women
I am Not Black…
I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White. These Labels were Made Up to Divide us.
