Af-Am Herstory

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2010 (posts w/ * include Afra-Latinas/Latinegras)

• More than My Hair – Melba Tolliver Puzzle (02/01/10)
• Out of the Mouth of Babes: Lou Jing (02/02/10)
• Josefina Baez and the Power of The Play (02/03/10) *
• Marisa Richm0nd Rocking the Intersections (02/04/10)
• Strengthening Our Communities: Aud M. L. Secard (02/05/10)
• Connecting Black Diasporic Freedoms: Quilombo Country & Haiti Benefit (02/06/10)*
• Do You know? Contest and Vonetta Flowers bio (02/07-08/10)
• Marcus Books, Knowledge is Power (02/09/10)
• The Women of the Vampire Diaries (02/12/10 orig plan 2/10)*
• Rutina Wesley and her “True Blood” (02/12/10 orig plan 2/11)
• Including Black Trans Women in the Queer Alphabet: Primary Text frm Monica Roberts (02/12/10)
• Lucille Clifton (02/13/10)
• Sade: The BHM Valentine’s Edition (02/14/10)
• You Be The Judge: Constance Motley (02/15/10)
• Bonnie St. John (02/16/09)
• M. LaVora Perry: Call for Authors, Call for Activism (02/17/10)
• Integrating Girl Scouts of America & the Powerful Women that Made it Happen (02/18 19/10)
• Uva: Rocking the Afra-Latina Poetry Beat (02/19/10)*
• Malcom X’s Family Speaks: Betty, Attallah, & Ilyasa Shabazz (02/20/10)
• Do You Know Contest and Assata Shakur (02/21/10 and 2/22/10)
• Sistahs in Business: Dolores Duncan Wharton (02/23/10)
• How Wide the Diaspora: Aída Cartagena Portalatín (2/24/10)*
• Veronica Chambers: Strength in the Inbetweenity (02/25/10 02/27/10)*
• Primary Text Post: Combahee River Collective (02/26/10)
• BHM: Charlotte Hubbard (02/27/10)
• Ever Lee Hairston: Teaching TABs to See (02/28/10)
• On This The Last Day of BHM: Link Luv (o2/28/10)

Post on Racist-Sexism During Black Herstory Month 2010

• Do You See What I See? The BHM Edition (02/02/10)*
• Ode to White Men Who Think They Are Black (02/10/10)
• John Mayer “Apologizes” for “Trying to Be Clever” (02/11/10)
• Racism During Black History Month (02/26/10)

2009

• Quiz & Inaugural Post (02/01/09)
• Joan Gibson, Rosa Parks, & WPC (02/02/09)
• Obama Puzzle (02/03/09)
• Sheyann Webb & Rachel West (02/04/09)
• Feminism, LBT & Rap (02/05/09)
• Cheryl Dunne (02/06/09)
• AFAM & HIV (2/07/09)
• Black Transmen & Still Black (02/08/08)
• Quilters: April Shipp (02/09/09)
• Cathy Hughes (02/10/09)
• Black Women Poets and DSV (02/11/09)
• Songstresses & Social Commentary (02/12/09)
• Julie Dash (02/13/09)
• Black Women Academics (02/14/09)
• Black Feminist Events (02/17/09)
• Race, Gender, & the NY Post (02/19/09)
• Kasi Lemmons (02/20/09)
• Ida B. Wells (02/23/09)
• Updated: Fannie Lou Hamer (02/23/09)
• Julia Carson (02/23/09)
• Hallie Quinn Brown (02/23/09)
• Zora Howard (02/24/09)
• Women Quilters I (02/25/09)
• Women Quilters II (02/26/09)
• Angela Robinson (02/27/09)