Black Women In America

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Dr. Abraham Weil Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University Long Beach Bachelor of Arts from University of Redlands Master of Arts from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Doctor of Philosophy - PhD from University of Arizona

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Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. 

In 1974, Amiri Baraka coined the term Afro-Surrealism to describe the work of Henry Dumas. 

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Krista Franklin is an African American poet and visual artist, whose main artistic focus is afro surrealism collage. 

Her work, which addresses race, gender, and class issues, combines personal, pop-cultural, and historical imagery. 

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In 1995 interview with science-fiction writers Mark Dery first suggested the term afrofuturism. 

“Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of 20th century technoculture — and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future”.   

“African-American voices have other stories to tell about culture, technology, and things to come. If there is an Afrofuturism, it must be sought in unlikely places, constellated from far-flung points.”

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Sun Ra in John Coney’s “Space Is the Place” (1974) 

Ajak Deng in Obsession Magazine by Julia Noni (2012)

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“Towards A Walk In the Sun” by Robert Pruitt  

“DMC” by Darryl McDaniels  

Spook Magazine, issue 4

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In the mid-1970s, Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman to anchor a nightly news program in Nashville at the age of 19 while in college. 

A decade later, she became the host of A.M. Chicago, directly competing with the popular Phil Donahue Show.

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Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

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Ming Smith The first African-American female photographer whose work was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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 Betye Saar  

A Los Angeles artist known for her works with mixed-media objects that explore race, history, death and rebirth through found objects.