rosa parks
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This Week in Essays
For the Passages North blog, Jennifer Maritza McCauley discovers a connection to Rosa Parks and goes to Alabama in search of answers. Can you go home again to a place you’ve never been? Enuma Okoro writes for Aeon on moving to Nigeria…
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Princess Leia: Feminist Hero
Star Wars is a bit more pop-culture-y than we tend to do around here, but I can’t help but share this piece from Emily Hauser on why we should stop talking about “Slave Leia” (who’s only in that costume for three minutes) and…
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Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks!
Civil-rights activist Rosa Parks would have turned 100 today. Racialicious has a great post debunking some popular myths about her famous refusal to sit at the back of the bus: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat…
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Revisiting Rosa Parks
Today is the anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat, resulting arrest and Montgomery boycott. The Grio discusses Park’s life and legacy, calling out her mischaracterization as “a simple woman who chose not to stand because…