Via Indy Week. Are You Afraid of Black Feminists? Or Just Your Own Freedom? BY ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free, since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.” — Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 This weekend at … Read More
Via Combahee River Collective. The Combahee River Collective Statement Combahee River Collective We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. [1] During that time we have been involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while at the same time doing political work within our own group … Read More
Via San Francisco Chronicle. Rep. Barbara Lee Proposes Racial Healing and Truth Commission Amid Pandemic, Protests Tal Kopan June 1, 2020 Updated: June 2, 2020 9:29 a.m. WASHINGTON — As a spate of recent killings of black Americans and a weekend of intense protests have left the nation reeling, Rep. Barbara Lee is introducing legislation to create a … Read More
Via The New York Times. Commentary on #blackoutttuesday Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang, two black women who work in music marketing, proposed that the music industry hold a day of reflection on Tuesday after the death of George Floyd. But what began as a targeted effort quickly morphed into the sea of black boxes you … Read More
Via Forge. Performative Allyship Is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead) Activism can’t begin and end with a hashtag By Holiday Phillips OnMay 25, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes as Floyd gasped, “I can’t breathe.” On March 13, Breonna Taylor was … Read More
Via Medium. What I Think About When I Hear That Broadway is Racist By Heathcliff Saunders The Blacker the Body, the Sweeter the Juice. That’s me. In Hairspray. photo credit: John Pai I’m a musical theater writer. I look pretty unusual in the world of musical theater writers, in the sense that I am not a … Read More
