Search results for "Assata Shakur"
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Personal is Political: How Assata Shakur Changed My Life: The Importance Of Ethnic Studies Curricula In High School And Beyond
Yet it wasn’t just Shakur’s story that impacted me, it was the way she wrote it. She seamlessly weaves the story of her childhood in...
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Assata Shakur is Welcome Here: Bringing Political Prisoners Back Into the Fold
By Meron Wondwosen Every generation honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers—Mignon McLaughlin It was November 5th 2005 and my first cousin was...
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What Assata Shakur Means to Me
By Randall C. Bailey As I have reviewed the life of Assata Shakur, I am reminded of the history of Black struggles in the US...
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Assata Shakur: She Who Struggles
By Luam Kidane Assata Shakur. she who struggles. Assata Shakur. she who struggles for rupture from colonized thought patterns. thought patterns choreographed to the legacies...
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Guided Home to Port: Assata Shakur, State Terror, and Black Resistance
By Connie Wun Domestic Terror: On May 2, 2013, the FBI placed Assata Shakur on its Most Wanted Terrorist list and, with the help of...
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Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
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An Open Letter to Kiera Wilmot and Other Black Girls Who Have Considered Giving Up When Their Science Projects and Assata Shakur Are Enuf
By j.n. salters Dear Kiera, Much like the hundreds of thousands of supporters who made phone calls, sent emails, and signed petitions urging prosecutors to drop...
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Our Sister, Assata Shakur: Life, Struggle, Justice, and Love
By Lisa Brock and Beth E. Richie Feminist women of color activists and anyone who considers themselves our allies in the struggle for justice need...
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Feminists We Love: Assata Shakur (Love Note)
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “No one is going to give you the education you need...
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THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE of BLACK LAWYERS (NCBL) CONDEMNS THE FBI’S CONTINUED ATTACKS ON ACTIVIST ASSATA SHAKUR
The Feminist Wire is committed to providing space for critical dialogue. We are reprinting NCBL’s statement in its entirety with permission from the authors with...
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"Affirmation" by Assata Shakur
“Affirmation” by Assata Shakur* ___ I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people. I believe in sunshine. In...
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An Introduction to TFW's Forum on Assata Shakur: America's Grammar Book on Black Women and Terrorism
Assata Shakur has been given many names over the past four decades. Her political allies in the 1970s struggle for black liberation knew her as...
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Assata’s living monument of love, a found poem for Trayvon and all kids who die* by Vanessa Huang
by Vanessa Huang we are all temporary. i’ll bow to beyond, and the miracles supporting us. maybe your bodies’ll be lluvia, a conscious accumulation de...
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Table of Contents for "A Celebration of Assata and the Black Radical Tradition"
Here is a list of the articles that appeared in our forum, “Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition,” offered with gratitude to each...
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Conclusion: Shakur or, a Primer on the Difference between Morality and Ethics
for LC and TD All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go, Break open shops; nothing can you steal, But thieves do lose it...
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Assata IS Free
By Safiya Olugbala We would meet in the dreamworld where it was safe for me to ask you anything and no one would hear the...
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Dear Assata…
By Tamara Curl-Green Dear Assata, I would like to let you know that your story sparked a change in my life. It was frightening and...
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We are Assata
Quincy Scott Jones We are braces and birthdays weekend barbeques commuter traffic and job interviews beauty salon barber shops the doorbell on a...
