Black Feminism

Black women and their commitment to freedom and equality has often been minimized in history books. However, with black women standing at the front of each decade, the intersectionality of gender, sexual orientation, and class has become a point of grave importance. Working through the Civil Rights era and beyond, black women were instrumental in increasing awareness on a diverse pool of relevant issues.

In the 1970s, black women forced the nation to understand the duality of being a woman and black. Angela Davis, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison pushed a narrative that required people to understand gender thought the context of race.

In this series of Black History In Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from  Brittney Cooper of Rutgers University, we’ll dive deeper into how black feminism paved the way for modern movements and the black experience as we know it.

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Executive Producers:
Robert F. Smith
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Dyllan McGee
Deon Taylor

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[imaqueen]

love this topic tough I ain't a black women. I really appreciate black women.

[mothergoose]

Bell hooks should've been referenced...

[froggysongz]

anyone else bored asf and came just to get educated for no reason

[juratory]

Judging by the comments, I can tell some people are uncomfortable with Black women having a sense of independence thanks to feminism.

Just admit you all want to own women like objects and go.

[Jwa-fonb]

The way these black men are responding should let every black women know to divest from them and live a happy life

[tarawibowo]

Women define the future generation, while men define the present generation. If you want the future generation to be good then educated your daughters correctly.
So infer this to present advances and problem, today advances and or problem is created by present men which is educated by their earlier generation of women.

[ENDofREGULATION]

This is when black women lost their way with their black counterparts... we (black men) never oppressed our women! We never had power to do so! This was never their fight

[goldwolf]

Where is the middle finger emoji when you need it best

[NIXONTRAYZ]

Thank God for blacks feminism now they are the last married most strong and independent. Congratulations

[Ugofitness]

This is bs I wish that the oppressor would stop pushing this to the community.

[yah-kikaelizmuth]

The movement came from a selfish intention and destroyed the community in the process

[KabadRamGadalGabaryam]

They can be independent and take care of theirselves not get married or take care of the children on their on because they are independent and “don’t need a man”