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The Politics of Division and Diversion

By Rabbi Sharon Brous — 2017

Millions of people around the world took to the streets in Women’s Marches, proclaiming fidelity to basic fundamental rights for women, people with disabilities, religious minority groups, immigrants and all vulnerable populations.

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Sonia Sanchez Speaks Truth to Power, Poetically [Interview]

A formalist with wide poetic range, Sanchez’s vast body of work includes poems that delve into themes that resonate with those who’ve known isolation’s dance.

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Penny Dickerson
2014
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Why America Needs the Black Church for its Own Survival

Will the Black church become White? It sounds like a strange question. When my family watched the 2021 PBS documentary on the Black church, I noted the assumption by some of those interviewed that the Black church received its faith and theology as a part of the transatlantic slave trade.

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Charlie Dates
2021
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Have We Been Doing Self-Care All Wrong?

To understand how the term “self-care” has evolved, I dug into the history of the phrase. The term has origins in medical research, but its leap from academia to public awareness can be traced back to the Black Panther Party and Black feminist writers.

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Angelica Puzio
2021
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Whose Grief? Our Grief

For Saeed Jones, generations collapse into seconds during an American week of chaos and sorrow.

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Saeed Jones
2020
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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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Serena Williams
2017
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The Intersectionality Wars

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

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Jane Coaston
2019
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The Legacy of Audre Lorde

There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a Black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared.

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Roxane Gay
2020
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A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde

In her public appearances, Audre Lorde famously introduced herself the same way: “I am a Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”

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Parul Sehgal
2020
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From Radical Dharma to All About Love, a Look at Queer Black Buddhist Perspectives on Spiritual Practice in Contemporary Texts

Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.

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Chintan Girish Modi
2020
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