Fannie Lou Hamer used the power of storytelling to compel America to recognize the humanity of poor Black people in Mississippi.
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Banning ‘Bossy’ Won’t Help Black Women and Girls Seeking Justice
This campaign presents us with the opportunity to find an intersectional approach to developing leadership skills in girls and women.
Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased
Many in the black community have fought for reproductive justice — but we’re often left out of the story.
It’s Time to Rethink Black History Month
If my friends and I were lucky, sometimes we heard about George Washington Carver, who invented peanut butter, or the Tuskegee Airmen. But one thing was constant: The people we heard about were almost always male.
Fannie Lou Hamer and Her Dream for Jobs and Freedom
Fannie Lou Hamer’s legacy continues through a number of Black women farmers and Black women farmer-owned cooperatives across the rural South.
A Word on Allyship…or Lack Thereof
What exactly does a “good ally” look like?
Reproductive Justice Knows New Jane Crow Ain’t So New
Despite reproductive justice being rooted within the experiences of women of color, white reproductive justice organizations claim to struggle with “diversity” or “finding” women of color with which to collaborate.
The Road to Roe: Paved with Bodies of Women of Color and the Legal Activism of African American
I frequently hear variations on these themes: “abortion is a white feminist thing,” “black people are against abortion,” or “abortion is black genocide.”