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🎥: About Radical D.C. Organizer, Kimi Gray.
A native Washingtonian, Kimi Gray was a national figure on public housing because of her efforts to revitalize a Northeast Washington community where she lived for more than three decades.
Source: C-SPAN.
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A native Washingtonian, Kimi Gray was a national figure on public housing because of her efforts to revitalize a Northeast Washington community where she lived for more than three decades.
Source: C-SPAN.
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Chronically neglected by the D.C. Housing Authority, the residents were often without heat or hot water for weeks at a time. Kimi took on management duties for her development.
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Within six months, Gray organized and hired residents and instilled discipline and a sense of hope that revived the entire complex.
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Honoring #BlackWomenRadicals at the Vanguard of the Labor Movement: Nannie Helen Burroughs ✨
100 years ago, Nannie Helen Burroughs organized and launched a Black women’s labor organization, the National Association of Wage Earners (NAWE) in 1921.
100 years ago, Nannie Helen Burroughs organized and launched a Black women’s labor organization, the National Association of Wage Earners (NAWE) in 1921.
“Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) devoted her life to improving the lives of Black women & girls. She often went up against men who could not imagine women in leadership positions &, throughout her career, campaigned for the rights & dignity of Black women.”
“In 1920, Burroughs organized a union for domestic workers, the National Association of Wage Earners (NAWE). According to scholar Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, this year marks the 100th anniversary of NAWE, which was a little-known but important Black women’s labor organization.”
Mae Mallory (June 9, 1927 – 2007) was an activist of the Civil Rights Movement & a Black Power movement leader active in the 1950s and 1960s. She is best known as an advocate of school desegregation and of Black armed
self-defense.
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self-defense.
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“Mallory was born in Macon, Georgia, on June 9, 1927. She later went to live in New York City with her mother in 1939.”
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“In 1956, Mallory was a founder and spokesperson of the "Harlem 9", a group of African-American mothers who protested the inferior and inadequate conditions in segregated New York City schools.”
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Starting in less than 30 minutes: Our event on "Radical African Feminist Movement Building" with host @NanaYBrantuo and panelists @stillSHErises, @wunpini_fm, @RosebellK, @kinnareads & Gathoni Blessol!
We're already filled to capacity for the event but we will be livestreaming!
We're already filled to capacity for the event but we will be livestreaming!
The first question for this event is: "What is a radical African feminism mean to you?"
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@stillSHErises states that a key part of radical African feminisms is recognizing bodily, sexual, and political autonomy and that means trans and queer people are included and must be centered.
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Happy Birthday, Eartha Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008)🎈
She was a singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, and songwriter known for her highly distinctive singing style.
📸: Photos licensed from Johnson Publishing Company.
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She was a singer, actress, dancer, comedian, activist, author, and songwriter known for her highly distinctive singing style.
📸: Photos licensed from Johnson Publishing Company.
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“Eartha Mae Keith was born on a cotton plantation near the small town of North, South Carolina, or St. Matthews on January 17, 1927.”
“After the death of her mother, Eartha was sent to live with another relative named Mamie Kitt in Harlem, New York City, where she attended the Metropolitan Vocational High School (later renamed the High School of Performing Arts).”
Happy Birthday, Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977)! 🎈She would have been 102 years-old today.
Hamer was a Black American voting & women's rights activist, community organizer & a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Hamer was a Black American voting & women's rights activist, community organizer & a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
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“Hamer was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.”
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“Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).”
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#OTDIH in 1832, teacher, journalist, abolitionist, lecturer, & women’s rights activist, Maria W. Stewart (1803—December 17, 1879) gave her second public lecture “Why Sit Ye Here & Die” in Franklin Hall in Boston, the meeting site of the New England Anti-Slavery Society.
📸: The cover of the book “Maria W. Stewart, America’s First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches” (1987) edited & introduced by Marilyn Richardson.
“Born free in 1803, Stewart was the first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and Black, she was also the first Black American woman to make public lectures, as well as to lecture about women's rights & make a public anti-slavery speech.”
On #LesbianVisibilityDay, we are sharing vintage photos of Black lesbian radicals & their contributions to Black political movement building.
BLACK LESBIANS WILL NOT BE ERASED.
📸: 1972, The Black Lesbian Caucus at NY Gay Pride.
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BLACK LESBIANS WILL NOT BE ERASED.
📸: 1972, The Black Lesbian Caucus at NY Gay Pride.
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📸: Angela Davis came out as a lesbian to Out in 1997.
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📸: 1971, Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
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Happy 106th Birthday to Fanny Jackson Coppin! 🎈
Coppin was the second Black American woman in the country to earn a bachelor’s degree and the first Black American woman to become a school principal.
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Coppin was the second Black American woman in the country to earn a bachelor’s degree and the first Black American woman to become a school principal.
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"Born an American slave, Coppin's freedom was purchased by her aunt at age 12. Fanny Jackson spent the rest of her youth working as a servant for author George Henry Calvert, studying at every opportunity."
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"In 1860, she enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio, the first college in the United States to accept both black & female students. During her years as a student at Oberlin, she taught an evening course for free African Americans in reading & writing."
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