Black Women's Power with Dr. Ashley Farmer

Black History Year

PushBlack

History

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Black women don’t often get their roses in the history books, relegated instead into background roles. But for us to achieve liberation as a people, we must understand the need for collective action to achieve liberation. Dr. Ashley Farmer can attest to this need. An accomplished historian and author of the pioneering book “Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era,” Dr. Ashley Farmer spearheads this powerful conversation about Black women's role in the Black Power movement, and the invaluable role Black women played and play in paving the way to Black liberation.

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0:57.0	There is always this veneer, this layer that Black men should be the leaders of the movement.
1:05.0	And Black men are going to redeem Africa and America and the diaspora. And Black women should step back that shifts in the 1960s.
1:13.0	And despite this kind of masculine bravada and beginnings, Black women fundamentally transformed the Black Panther Party.
1:21.0	And they did this by taking this idea of the revolutionary and making a female version of it.
1:39.0	The history that's presented to us often highlights Black men leading the movement towards liberation.
1:46.0	The Frederick's, the Patrice's, the Martin's, the Malcolm's and Kwame's.
1:51.0	These are the names we hear, but if we've learned anything about the history we're taught, we know a lot of times we're only getting to have the story.
2:01.0	I'm Jay from Push Black, and you're listening to Black History Year.
2:07.0	So there are two facets that are often ignored in the history of our movements.
2:17.0	One, our movements have always been a result of collective action, not just one person with an idea.
2:26.0	And two, this action was often carried out by Black women.
2:32.0	Black women don't often get their roses in the history books.
2:35.0	And even today that's shaped the way we perceive certain movements and the ways Black women shape those movements.
2:42.0	So for us to achieve liberation as a people today, we must understand these facts.
2:48.0	We need collective action from everyone in our community.
2:53.0	So everyone can one day reap the rewards of liberation.
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