and medicine
HEALING AND RECONCILIATION HAS ALWAYS REQUIRED
TRUTH, ACCOUNTABILITY AND ACTION
Join Us In A Praise Song for Black Feminists We Honor The Contributors to Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s comprehensive collection of writings, in the feminist tradition, of more than sixty African American women. From the pioneering work of abolitionist Maria Miller Stewart and anti-lynching crusader Ida Wells-Barnett to the writings of contemporary feminist critics Michele Wallace and bell hooks, black women have been writing about the multiple jeopardies—racism, sexism, and classism—that have made it imperative for them to forge a brand of feminism uniquely their own.
The Authors
Margaret Walker Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander
Frances Beale
Shirley Chisholm
Cheryl Clarke
Pearl Cleage
Johnnetta B. Cole
Patricia Hill Collins
The Combahee River Collective
Anna Julia Cooper
Angela Davis
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Julia A.J. Foote
Amy Jacques Garvey
Paula Giddings
Jacquelyn Grant
Patricia Haden
Evelynn Hammonds
Lorraine Hansberry
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Elizabeth Higginbotham
Darlene Clark Hine
bell hooks
Claudia Jones
June Jordan
Gloria Joseph
Florynce “Flo” Kennedy
Deborah K. King
Linda La Rue
Audre Lorde
Tracye Matthews
Elise Johnson McDougald
Donna Middleton
Gertrude Bustill Mossell
Pauli Murray
Barbara Omolade
Barbara Ransby
Beth E. Richie
Patricia Robinson
Barbara Smith
Maria Miller Stewart
Ula Taylor
Mary Church Terrell
Pauline Terrelonge
Sojourner Truth
Alice Walker
Michele Wallace
Mary Ann Weathers
Ida Wells-Barnett
E. Frances White
Margaret Wilkerson
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GALA HONOREES
PRAISE SONG
Saturday Evening
April 29, 2017, 6:30pm - 10:30pm
Lasting Legacies Honorees
Recy Taylor
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Byllye Avery
Elsa Barkley Brown
Cheryl Clarke
Pearl Cleage
Angela Davis
Demita Frazier
Akasha Gloria Hull
Gloria Joseph
Julianne Malveaux
Tracye Matthews
Toni Morrison
Margo Ozakawa-Rey
Beth E. Richie
Sharon Page Ritchie
Loretta Ross
Ruby Sales
Ntozake Shange
Barbara Smith
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Michele Wallace
E. Frances White
Patricia Hill Collins
Paula Giddings
Black Feminist Shapeshifters and Waymakers
Fania Davis
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Anita Hill
Monique Morris
Teresa Younger
Black Feminist Human Rights Defenders
Brittney Cooper
Kimberly Foster
Elle Hearns
Jamilah Lemieux
Tamura Lomax
Darci McConnell
Kim Trent
Jamia Wilson
Kymberli Worthy
Black Feminist Rising
Sevonna Brown
Bré Anne Campbell
Mercy Carpenter
Trina Greene Brown
Wagatwe Wanjuki
Human Rights Legacy Honorees
Cassandra Butts - In Memoriam
The Floyd Room
Overlooking the sights
and scenes of downtown Atlanta
200 Piedmont Ave, SE 20th Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
When as women we honor each other, we commit acts of resistance and liberation. On the one-year anniversary of the Black Women's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, we will honor a cross-generation of Black feminists on whose great shoulders we stand: those who continue to put their lives on the line today for Black women and girls and those who are the keepers of a new and powerful era of truth, justice, healing and transformation.
Keynote
Creative Director
Mistress of Ceremony
Farah Tanis
Matema Hadi
Featuring
Michaela Angela
Davis
The Atlanta Music Project
Kita P
Eboni
