Writing Black Women's Social Engagement: Conversation on the "angry Black Woman"

by Bryeson Henry

An early iteration of forming a collective Black consciousness and understanding of the Black experience found its roots in Negritude. As a framework of critique and literary theory it aimed at raising and cultivating Black consciousness across Africa and its diaspora with one of its main tenets being the acceptance of emotionality of the Black peoples. The first president of Senegal and poet Léopold Sédar Senghor describe ...   ...  Read more
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  • Black Women: Passion not Anger and if Anger, So What.

    Black Women: Passion not Anger and if Anger, So What.

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    In this podcast series, three Black women will be interviewed and given space to state their anger. A transgenerational approach will be used to give voice to a Black woman in her 20s, 40s, and 60s to express an answer to a simple question: What makes you angry? Its intention is not to judge or critique; instead, the foremost goal is to listen and learn. The first episode of this series highlights Lotoya Francis, a Cornell University student in her 20s, who shares her poem Angry Black Girl Alert. The poem speaks on the strained relationship between Black women and Black men, a source of Lotoya’s anger. In essence, it sets the stage for a broader discussion on a lack of protection for Black women, Black masculinity, and a number of other aspects plaguing the community a whole.