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Black Women Radicals supports the Palestinian Feminist Collective, a US-based body of Palestinian & Arab women & feminists committed to social & political liberation, in the launch of the "Palestine is a Feminist Issue Pledge”: https://t.co/EbJUcVTDba
#PalestineIsAFeministIssue
TW: anti-Black death
Have you heard about #QuawanCharles? He was found dead on Nov. 3. in a sugarcane field. He was 15. Louisiana police aren’t helping.
Support Quawan’s family: https://t.co/X80I3zFQUM & sign this petition: https://t.co/LDE5bSgPQ2
#JusticeforQuawanCharles
Happy Birthday to the jazz great, Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915–July 17, 1959)! 🎈 She would have been 105 years old today.
Nicknamed “Lady Day”, Holiday first rose to prominence in the 1930’s with a unique style that reinvented the conventions of modern singing & performance.
Happy Birthday, Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995)!🎈
Bambara was a Black American author, documentary film-maker, social activist, and college professor.
#blackwomenradicals
Happy 76th Birthday, Dr. Angela Davis! 🎈
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
— Dr. Angela Y. Davis
#blackwomenradicals
#ThankYouAngelaDavis
📸: Covers of BLK Magazine: The National Black Lesbian and Gay News magazine.
Started in 1988 by Alan Bell in Los Angeles, BLK Magazine was a Black LGBT publication that produced 41 issues between 1989 and 1994.
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”
— Audre Lorde
#blackwomenradicals
“Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile, known as Défilée and Défilée-La-Folle, is a figure of the Haitian Revolution. She is remembered for retrieving and burying the mutilated body of Emperor Dessalines after his assassination at Pont Larnage.”
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“Catherine Flon was a Haitian seamstress, patriot and national heorine. She is regarded as one of the symbols of the Haitian Revolution and independence. She is celebrated for sewing the first Haitian flag in 1803.”
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