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Intersectionality Matters!

49. We Won't Black Down: Why Black Voters Matter

Intersectionality Matters!

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw

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4.7814 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Host Kimberlé Crenshaw is joined by Cliff Albright, cofounder of Black Voters Matter. Together, Crenshaw and Albright discuss voter suppression, gerrymandering and intimidation tactics -- and the ways they intersect to suppress the voices of Black communities today, and throughout history. They reminisce about their recent cross-country tour, bearing witness to erasure of history at stops along the way -- like the fact that there is not so much as a plaque at the site of a Black newspaper that was burned to the ground during the Wilmington coup in 1898. Listen as Crenshaw and Albright unpack how these moments, when they're erased, separate Black history from American history, and how the struggle for democracy and the struggle against racial suppression are one and the same. To learn more about the Books Unbanned: From Freedom Riders to Freedom Readers Tour, and our new book club, visit www.booksunbanned.org This episode features: Cliff Albright, Cofounder, Black Voters Matter Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) Produced and edited by Nicole Edwards Mixed by Sean Dunnam Support provided by Kevin Minofu, Rebecca Scheckman, Alex van Biema, Nadia Ncube Music by Blue Dot Sessions Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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The 2024 presidential election was marked by soaring highs and crushing lows. Black women, 91% of whom turned out for VP Harris, once again proved to be the most engaged, progressive, and resilient voting bloc.

0:16.0

In an election campaign where rampant sexism and racism was directed not only at Harris,

0:22.1

but at black women more broadly, the misogy noir we just witnessed is already being written

0:27.0

out of the analysis of what actually happened.

0:30.0

There seems to be a widening gap between what black women experienced and what the

0:34.1

pundit and political classes choose to talk about.

0:37.3

So join host Kimberly Crenshaw for a virtual under the blacklight conversation on December 3rd at 7 p.m. Eastern.

0:45.7

Black women advocates, activists, and analysts will offer their side of the story about the election

0:50.9

and highlight the risks to our democracy if we continue to erase black women

0:56.2

and their experiences. Register for free at Bitley slash Election 24 Road Ahead. That's Bitley

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slash Election 24 Road Ahead. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters. The podcast that brings

1:16.6

intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues,

1:22.6

from say her name in COVID to the war on CRT and the global rise of fascism.

1:29.0

This idea travelogue lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars, and

1:34.0

helps listeners understand politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives

1:40.3

in deeper, more nuanced ways.

1:49.0

Thank you. in deeper, more nuanced ways. We're in the final stretch to the midterms, and the African-American Policy Forum is just

1:53.8

wrapped up our Get Out the Vote Tour.

1:56.1

We went through 24 cities along with the transformative justice coalition and Black Voters

2:00.5

Matter.

2:01.5

We called our campaign from Freedom Riders to Freedom Readers, the Books Unbanned Tour.

2:07.7

We hit the road to draw out the connections between the onslaught of book bans that seek to silence our

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