carlee russell's disappearance reflects a mirror on how society treats Black women when they go missing
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When Black Women Go Missing

This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Late last month, Alabama woman Carlee Russell was charged with falsely claiming she was kidnapped. The 26-year-old allegedly weaved an intricate tale of […]

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Emmett Till, murdered by Carolyn Bryant Donham
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A Post In Which We Mourn Emmett Till and Definitely Not Carolyn Bryant Donham

Carolyn Bryant Donham died last week at age 88 in Louisiana, where she had been undergoing end-of-life care for cancer. That’s the news peg. For the unaware: In 1955, Donham falsely accused a 14-year-old Emmett Till of grabbing and sexually harassing her in Money, Mississippi. The accusation spelled a death sentence. Donham’s husband and brother-in-law

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Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston, & The Power of Untold Stories

This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Zora Neale Hurston had been dead for 70 years by the time Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” reached the masses.

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How Respectability Politics Undermine Black Resistance

Note: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has made this year Black History Month’s theme Black Resistance, which analyzes how Black people have historically rallied against political and societal oppression. Also, this post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps

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Ida B. Wells: A Lesson in Black Resistance

Note: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has made this year Black History Month’s theme Black Resistance, which analyzes how Black people have historically rallied against political and societal oppression. When Ida B. Wells documented a total of 241 lynchings in Southern Horrors and The Red Record in the 1890’s it subjected

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(Non-Performative) Ways to Celebrate Black History Month

In 1926, historian Carter G. Woodson assigned the second week of February as Negro History Week and encouraged educators to dedicate that week to teaching their students Black history. In 1976, years after Woodson’s death, it became what is now recognized as Black History Month, which spans through the entire month of February. Black History

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Why We Should Be Concerned About Fast Fashion

Clothing retailers born in the Instagram era face a unique problem: how to create timely items while remaining profitable. Enter “fast fashion,” which aims to sell trendy items at low prices. But these items come with a significant cost to the environment, labor movements, and small businesses. Without singling out any brands, many fast fashion

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