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Women

Femicide is colonial violence: Why colonized women are dying

Femicide is often discussed like it's an anomaly that occurs within a society that is otherwise free from violence. The reality, however, is that...

Black Mother’s March gathers in D.C. to expose state-kidnappings of black children

The Black Mother’s March on the White House, a coalition of black-led organizations involved in the struggle to rescue our children from the clutches...

Extracted: forced C-Sections to family policing

The cases of Cherise Doyley and Briana Bennet, two African women who were court ordered to undergo cesarean sections against their will, uncovers the...

Strength, struggle, and the leadership of African Women

I didn’t learn about the role of women in books or school. All I had to do was look into my family to see...

Sonya Massey’s killer faces conviction, but colonialism still runs free

On Saturday, July 6, 2024 in the late hours of around 12:50 a.m., Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old African woman who resided in Woodside Township,...

Belinda Parker Brown: “We’re going to weather the storm.”

This is a condensed transcription of  Belinda Parker Brown’s presentation given at the Black is Back Coalition’s 17th Annual Conference on August 23-24. Belinda...

Long live Assata Shakur!

Uhuru! From the African People’s Socialist Party we salute the legacy of Comrade Assata Shakur, a fierce warrior of the Black Revolution of the 1960s,...

Safiya Bukhari: A lioness for liberation

Safiya Bukhari, born Bernice Jones in 1950 in the Bronx, began her life in a devout Christian, middle-class household. Like many young African women,...

African woman killed, body vandalized by colonial medical system

Even in death, we are still enslaved. In February 2025, Adriana Smith, nine-weeks pregnant at the time, staggered into a local hospital complaining of an...
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