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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 8 months ago
In an interview with Isaac Fitzgerald of Buzzfeed News, Dr. Zinga Fraser discussed the the various moral, personal and political considerations that Shirley Chisholm faced during her first days as a Congresswoman […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 8 months ago
Venus Williams and the fight for equal pay
Claudia Jones and Left Politics
Black Women’s response to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill controversy
Barbara Smith and The Combahee River Collective
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
Keisha Blain
“Audley “Queen Mother” Moore had fond memories of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic Black nationalist leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest and most influential glo […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
As you’re watching Shola Lynch’s Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, you should think about and consider recent discussions about other black women activists in the black freedom struggle, especially […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
Doing the Research Paper:
The evidentiary basis of a research papers is primary sources. While secondary sources are useful to provide historical context, as well as a sense of what other have written in the […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
“Know Barbara Smith: One of Our First Proud, Out Black Lesbians” by Janet Mock
Like many feminists, I met Barbara Smith on the page. I read the “Combahee River Collective Statement,” which she co- […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
In honor of Women’s History Month, Out dedicates its March issue to women and nonbinary femmes. For the first time in our 27 years of publishing, our entire magazine only features and is photographed by, s […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
Historical Writing
Historical writing, like other disciplinary writing, comes in multiple forms—the historical narrative, historiographical essay, and, of course, theoretical/methodological essays/think p […]
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Shannon King commented on the post, Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor', on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
Can u elaborate on how you think this situation is related to MacLean’s chapter?
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
An Unnamed Girl, A Speculative History
Saidiya Hartman
“It was not the kind of image I was looking for when I set out to tell the story of the social revolution and transformation of intimate life […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
Black Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Please respond to ONE prompt. The responses must be written in essay form, at least 3 full and no more than 5 pages. The essay must be double spaced, 1” margins, and i […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 9 months ago
By Tanisha Ford
“For the past year or so, I’ve been tinkering with a short essay on my earliest encounters with the Ku Klux Klan and the ways in which Klan violence is intimately linked to my childhood and my e […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy
By Brent Staples
“Americans are being forced to chose between a cherished lie and a disconcerting truth as they prepare to celebrate the centennial of […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 9 months ago
3 Ways to Improve Education about Slavery in the U.S.
When it comes to teaching students about slavery in the United States, teachers often stumble through the topic. In the worst cases, they use poorly […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 9 months ago
Cold War/Civil Rights
1947-1991-Cold War, USA vs USSR
1945-United Nations
Repression and Surveillance of Black Activists
–1938-75-House Un-American Activities Committee
–1956-1971-Counter […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 9 months ago
Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Tall About Our Past
By Annette Gordon Reed
“Sally Hemings has been described as “an enigma,” the enslaved woman who first came to public notice at the turn of […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 9 months ago
“A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveal Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories”
“Readers of the May 24, 1796 Pennsylvania Gazette found an advertisement offering ten dollars to any person who would apprehend […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 10 months ago
The idea of “black freedom struggles” is a phrase scholars and activists use. You will find similar phrases on scholars’ books, such as Barbara Ransby’s Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.
But more […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives 5 years, 10 months ago
In “Running With the Reds,” LaShawn Harris illuminates the roles of black mothers, as activists, in the communist party or at least using the CP as vehicle for their own political goals. Harris centers the […]
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Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother 5 years, 10 months ago
“In 1838, the Jesuit priests who managed Georgetown University rescued it from debt by selling the enslaved ancestors of people like Joseph M. Stewart. In 2016, Stewart sat down in an auditorium at Georgetown […]
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