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Panel #1 IN HONOR OF FRANCIS HARPER
BLACK WOMEN AS PURVEYORS OF CHANGE
Books
- To ‘joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Live and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter
- Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America by Dorothy Butler Gilliam
- Women Who Count: Honoring African American Women Mathematicians by Shelly M. Jones, Ph.D.
- Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height
Articles
- The Pioneering Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment
- Inside Job: The Black Women Creating Change Within Today’s Biggest Beauty Companies
- Five African American Women Who Changed America
Panel #2 IN HONOR OF AUDRE LORDE
BODY POLITICS & MOVEMENTS TOWARDS THE SACRED
Books by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Dub: Finding Ceremony
- M Archive
- Spill
- Revolutionary Mothering
Other Books
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good – Written and Gathered by Adrienne Maree Brown
- A Burst of Light and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
- A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
Articles
- “I’m Bossy”: On Black Feminism, Power and Body Politics
- Fitness is a Story We Should Tell Differently: An Interview with Courtney Marshall
PANEL #3, IN HONOR OF IDA B. WELLS
BLACK WOMEN’S PRESENT-DAY LEADERSHIP & ACTIVISM
Books
- Black Girls Rock!: Celebrating the Power, Beauty and Brilliance of Black Women by Beverly Bond
- Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Ashley D. Farmer
- Unapologetic – A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
- This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jenkins
Articles
- • Unbarring Progress
- • Teaching Inside: On Hard Work and Achieving the Impossible
- • Ida B. Well’s Uncompromising View of Suffrage
PANEL #4, IN HONOR OF NINA SIMONE
ART SPEAKS: ACTIVISM THROUGH THE CREATIVE
Books
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rimes
- Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
- We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 by Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley
- The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women’s Activism by Anne Meis Knupfer
- “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Black Female Soul Singing and The Politics of Subrogation in the Age of Catastrophe
Articles
- “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Black Female Soul Singing and The Politics of Surrogation in the Age of Catastrophe
- The Overlooked, Radical History of Black Women in Art
- Was Bessie Smith a Feminist? (PDF)
- A Raised Voice
PANEL #5, IN HONOR OF SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
FIRED UP & READY TO GO: BLACK WOMEN AND ELECTORAL POLITICS
Books
- Expect to Win by Carla Harris
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Black Women in Politics: Identity, Power and Justice in the New Millenium (National Political Science Review Series) edited by Michael Mitchell and David Coven
Articles
- Before Kamala Harris became Biden’s running mate, Shirley Chisholm and other Black woman aimed for the White House
- 2020 campaign shows the more women run, the more they are treated like candidates – not tokens
- Black women in politics are no longer a ‘first.’ They are a force
- America’s Black female mayors face dual crises of COVID-19 and protests – but these woman are used to uphill battles
PANEL #6, IN HONOR OF MARI COPENY “LITTLE MISS FLINT”
MOVING IT FORWARD: THE NEXT GENERATION OF BLACK FEMALE ACTIVISTS
Books
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You! by Marley Dias
- No Disrespect by Sister Souljah
- The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
Articles
- How a New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation
- Read the letter from “Little Miss Flint” that stirred Obama to visit Flint
- As protests continue, black women activists are leading again
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