Voices | Shannon King | Activity https://voices.wooster.edu/members/sking/activity/ Activity feed for Shannon King. Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:02:29 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1851a44263430f8d67908a809b1abdc6 Shannon King commented on the post, Seeking the Black Vote, on the site Lose Your Mother https://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/2019/05/06/seeking-the-black-vote/#comment-31 Tue, 07 May 2019 04:41:12 +0000 Biden will likely get the black vote, but he’s deeply problematic.

Abigail, you’re partly correct that Biden represents the old guard of the Democratic Party, though the claim that he represents the […]

]]> 1faeef5524b02b2d527dabd2a2267852 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=510 Tue, 07 May 2019 04:32:25 +0000  

As a younger voter in the 1990s, I was initially interested in Joe Biden. He was charismatic, spoke well, and seemed quite reasonable.

Of course, at this time, I didn’t know about his controversial […]

]]> b19e0e455d28aaba82e049bc9e422d4c Shannon King commented on the post, Modern-day Redlining, on the site Lose Your Mother https://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/2019/05/04/modern-day-redlining/#comment-26 Sun, 05 May 2019 22:08:06 +0000 Yes. Redlining is a live and well, unfortunately.

]]> 420422f6d966e21d2860cc24f2a88414 Shannon King commented on the post, Black Politicians and the Run for Presidency, on the site Lose Your Mother https://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/2019/05/05/black-politicians-and-the-run-for-presidency/#comment-25 Sun, 05 May 2019 22:07:10 +0000 Good post, Adebola. There were previous precedents for the presidency, but despite the attraction of the third party how likely is it for them to win? Also, what about the roles of “movement” politics? […]

]]> b26db9220c08bfd3191f71494160df76 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=510 Thu, 02 May 2019 18:21:48 +0000 Mark Herron, “Black women struggle impact in sports”

Conflicts from an athletic standpoint. Serena Williams has been receiving backlash for her catsuit from audiences saying it was too exposing. Brittney Gri […]

]]> 02acef0d9be4d99013898efa7396cd93 Shannon King commented on the post, Open for discussion: Response to the question of "What did Obama do for African Americans of this country?", on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/2019/04/30/open-for-discussion-response-to-the-question-of-what-did-obama-do-for-african-americans-of-this-country/#comment-17 Wed, 01 May 2019 05:26:36 +0000 Great question, Dante. I think, and this is what I was trying to get at yesterday morning, that Obama definitely inspired black people. It was both cultural and symbolic! And this is important!

It will be years […]

]]> 695ac7405214dd3a0a7bfc45aa7ad8df Shannon King commented on the post, 3 Black Churches Have Burned in 10 Days: A Hate Crime, on the site Lose Your Mother https://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/2019/04/30/3-black-churches-have-burned-in-10-days-a-hate-crime/#comment-16 Wed, 01 May 2019 05:11:47 +0000 This is an important conversation. On the one hand, certainly both Notre Dame and black churches should get support.

On the other, there’s a clear relationship between US racism and burning of black churches; […]

]]> a732bc2874656d97b80534f52b9ac494 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=498 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:19:57 +0000 Workshop III

Brian Lief “Equal Pay for Women: Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and Other Female Athletes Fight for Equal Pay”

I am focusing on the efforts by female African American athletes to fight for pay […]

]]> d433df7d4a860c599e90febf52f945ed Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=479 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:13:20 +0000 This post is partly inspired by recent student activism at the College of Wooster, represented collectively by the Galpin Call-in, as well more recently students, especially students of color’s concerns about […]

]]> ca7650ecfcb2a79b0a37a5320664078d Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=431 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:36:28 +0000 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The Danger of A Single Story”

In this class, while this course’s goal is to center African American History as central and part of the larger story of U.S. history, it also […]

]]> 9557862f8eef76db16d9f58d94ddfffb Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=428 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:12:12 +0000 Systematic Racism Explained

This morning we discussed the rise of conservativism in American politics and liberal and conservative law and order politics. Part of that discussion is connected to previous […]

]]> cdaf74f8c116aef03c4df8f6e1734ed9 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=426 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:40:35 +0000 “Kevin Kruse Takes to Twitter to School Dinesh D’Souza in American History” by Jeet Heer

Dinesh D’Souza gets a history lesson on Twitter. D’Souza has made a specialty of highlighting the undeniable racism of […]

]]> 5a1714bd84e3217a34a0277c2e17f131 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=475 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:26:57 +0000 Workshop II

Andrew Aldridge, “Killing Me Softly: An Observation of Hip Hop from a Feminist Lens”

This paper examines various ways women of color have fought against their portrayal in the male dominated hip […]

]]> 0c6ae9ed1c00560dbe577ee6861bbd94 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=470 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:25:59 +0000 Paige Clay, “The mammy caricature through film and the responses of Black women”

For my final paper I’ve decided to explore the idea of the mammy caricature through film. I’ve also ties this to our class b […]

]]> 4288260dc3f239c88329691352affaa8 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=467 Mon, 22 Apr 2019 21:24:21 +0000 36a29d5527a07ade7ff52c87bb7fe616 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=449 Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:46:43 +0000 Scholars,

Yesterday in class, as we were discussing Carruthers’s work, we had brief discussion of Robin D. G. Kelley’s “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,”  and I claimed that the current […]

]]> 58a94b4774d1148cde0cee07174865b0 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=301 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:25:06 +0000 Exam II Review_From Reconstruction to World War II_spr 2019

You should be able to answer this series of questions:  What is the basic story of African Americans from Reconstruction to World War II?  How did w […]

]]> b24f2929053e30e3e6899bd429d834ef Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=370 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:29:47 +0000 The article “Bronx Slave Market” by Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke in The Crisis, the NAACP’s magazine has played a critical role in mobilizing black workers, civil rights leaders, and radical activists. This […]

]]> 977127a752d607f0261d711dabf4091e Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=364 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:27:44 +0000 Making Sense of Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary sources–sources that are contemporary with a particular time period can come in any form.  These sources might be film, text, archival […]

]]> f55abd6582fef145419ef0deeb628ec2 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=355 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:29:34 +0000 Robin D. G. Kelley, “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racialism Capitalism”

“So what did Robinson mean by “racial capitalism”? Building on the work of another forgotten black radical intellectual, soci […]

]]> c7e526b1d1853bcf674d236a028a902f Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=338 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:01:02 +0000 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 […]

]]> e65c9e123dfd261f25f7930a9a292c05 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=336 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:35:32 +0000 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

]]> 1cb88d9135423a5b3cf52d5947b12136 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=315 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 18:11:15 +0000 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 […]

]]> 5bbe8e5386265c4baac8f1b22aefc9b7 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=264 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:36:20 +0000 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 […]

]]> 8a54fa1decf2f66e2eaea82c3aa40b51 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=258 Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:08:13 +0000 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 […]

]]> 4c7c14eb6b1b4f183a727152cc2425be Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=250 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 03:33:32 +0000 “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- […]

]]> aa37bef7971e15b56d0bca866094c9f3 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=239 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 04:56:33 +0000 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 […]

]]> d69d4c57b4896b53ec01d0cd1ba0724a Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=207 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:14:37 +0000 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 […]

]]> 9453be20cca1aef37f88256590889ce6 Shannon King commented on the post, Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor', on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives https://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-was-not-a-progressive-prosecutor/#comment-14 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:50:41 +0000 Can u elaborate on how you think this situation is related to MacLean’s chapter?

]]> da86eee33c0d961fb258c3815c51337f Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=185 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:20:36 +0000 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 […]

]]> 0d6d4aaeea2fdc423e7b6367eafc241d Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=180 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:59:51 +0000 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 […]

]]> 5f016fcc894aca00e5b9ac06a7c02e8e Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=138 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:46:56 +0000 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 […]

]]> 1945f1802586b1047dfbd6d3b00a55ee Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=156 Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:58:04 +0000 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 […]

]]> 5a5065debf5fac47339cdc79456e70ed Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=117 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:56:44 +0000 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 […]

]]> 0c44fdc323bbcc7167acb58d3396c160 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=149 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:01:43 +0000 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 […]

]]> 9a3f145f93c4006085d3f76243ed5b02 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=104 Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:12:56 +0000 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 […]

]]> a741a013f6657250efbbac3f5e28ced1 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=99 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:32:29 +0000 “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 […]

]]> 4435c3e7350c4b1214d8f98493429343 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=131 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:07:44 +0000 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 […]

]]> 57815effa10c0bd68351af27d9683f0f Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=123 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:39:46 +0000 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 […]

]]> 04baf02fd885a9ea846960a87a6f13c9 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=92 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:12:51 +0000 “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 […]

]]> 06fac597d2d406a1b97452f8aaa655f1 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=109 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 03:45:37 +0000 By Keeanga-Yahmahtta Taylor

“As the third anniversary of the Women’s March approaches, the political tensions that underlie these considerations have boiled over and split the movement. A stark example of the a […]

]]> 235e3e0b5d47ef9070d4448e7ff9e5c8 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=66 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:35:48 +0000 Go to our website. Type in Voices
On the top left-hand corner, you want to register, using your college e-mail address.
Once you’ve registered please send me an e-mail indicating that you’ve reg […]

]]> cc63b543ad3ef841cef4bd4998f1c6aa Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Lose Your Mother http://atribeofthemiddlepassage.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1 Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:36:31 +0000 Welcome to History of Black America!

History of Black Americais an introduction to African American history, covering periods from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the present. The objective of the course […]

]]> aaa87a865e88b46360483e6508027baa Shannon King wrote a new post on the site The Movement for Black Women's Lives http://blackwomenintheblackfreedomstruggle.voices.wooster.edu/?p=1 Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:38:30 +0000 Happy New Year and Welcome to Black Women in the Black Freedom Struggle

This course spans the period from the late nineteenth century to the present. The course centers the activism of black women in the US […]

]]> 7489258dffdf5bb0daedeb91509f4b8b Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Freedom Dreams http://theblackfreedommovement.voices.wooster.edu/?p=558 Thu, 03 May 2018 18:16:35 +0000 In historical writing, the introduction of an essay, article, or book operates as the roadmap for the work. It’s tells the reader exactly what the goal, objective, or argument of the work is, lays out its […]

]]> baae5ef046965da994653f336d5f5f5d Shannon King wrote a new post on the site A Tribe of the Middle Passage http://loseyourmother.voices.wooster.edu/?p=750 Wed, 02 May 2018 01:43:12 +0000 96bc75684bfa145b96fd897428b510a7 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Freedom Dreams http://theblackfreedommovement.voices.wooster.edu/?p=549 Wed, 02 May 2018 01:41:58 +0000 26410385a9fbeacc93c2d4b52703222c Shannon King commented on the post, Artwork of the Civil Rights Movement, on the site A Tribe of the Middle Passage https://loseyourmother.voices.wooster.edu/2018/04/27/artwork-of-the-civil-rights-movement/#comment-32 Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:07:12 +0000 Excellent post, Katie!

]]> b5c07bfdc6ffa4b1c6cd586ff1fa67c6 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site Freedom Dreams http://theblackfreedommovement.voices.wooster.edu/?p=539 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:22:57 +0000 Jacob Bueter

Abstract

The following paper gives a description of the Boston Busing crisis an issue that was surrounded by racial tension and legal action. The crisis began when black parents and students […]

]]> e905e4486616829cb75c1b0387f67313 Shannon King wrote a new post on the site A Tribe of the Middle Passage http://loseyourmother.voices.wooster.edu/?p=708 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:36:11 +0000 Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete

 

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