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Angela Davis (1943–present) spent the next four decades opposing the racial discriminators who learned to hide their intent, denouncing those who promoted end-of-racism fairytales while advocating bipartisan tough-on-crime policies and a prison-industrial complex that engineered the mass incarceration, beatings, and killings of Black people by law
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
On television I caught glimpses of the heroes of the Black Power movement. Muhammad Ali, Stokley Carmichael and Yuri Kochiyama were all preaching about the condition of black people, and Angela Davis was still regarded as the most dangerous person in the USA.
Benjamin Zephaniah • The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
The most outstanding examples of white women’s sisterly solidarity with Black women are associated with Black people’s historical struggle for education. Like Prudence Crandall and Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner literally risked her life as she sought to impart knowledge to young Black women.17 In 1851, when she initiated her project to
... See moreAngela Y. Davis • Women, Race & Class (Penguin Modern Classics)
we have to talk about systemic change. We can’t be content with individual actions.