Looking Closely at Black Womens’ Activism

@ASoulAFire @JaniceOCG @KeishaBlain @premillanadasen & @racewomanist wrote “What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building” & three “historians lift up Black women journalists, organizers and activists who were critical to Black freedom movements but often erased from history” for @inthesetimesmag #M4BL issue.

“Despite Black women’s immense contributions, even today — a time of unprecedented awareness of the Panthers — their work within the organization remains hidden by a focus on male leaders’ advocacy of self-defense above and beyond any other legacy.

“I see parallels in the Black Lives Matter movement— although, in this case, visibility of women is not hidden behind prominent male leaders. Rather, the work of the Black women who launched the initial call and the large number organizing at the grassroots — often to defend the lives of Black men, as with the Panther women — is hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by political abstractions.”  — Robyn C. Spencer

READ | What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building | In These Times by Guest Editors Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer | 7/15/2021