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The Power of Black Motherhood during COVID-19 and the Uprisings

October 16, 2020October 13, 2020 Assata Gonzalez #Autoethnographies, Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, race, racism, white supremacy

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness

October 14, 2020October 10, 2020 Billie-Rae Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, #MentalHealth, Black women, Gender

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Pandemic Deepens Food Inequality in Brooklyn

October 13, 2020October 19, 2020 Khadhazha Welch #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black women, Gender, racism, Resistance

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

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Claudia Jones and the Price of Anticommunism

September 30, 2020September 27, 2020 Denise Lynn Black women, Communism, Communist Party

Between 1949 to 1958 dozens of Communist Party (CPUSA) leaders were tried, some were convicted, and several served prison terms.

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