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In Praise of Lucille Clifton

By Reginald Dwayne Betts — 2019

The poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose new collection is “Felon,” on the writer who helped him come to terms with himself.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system.

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Sabrina Strings
2019
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies.

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Dorothy Roberts
1998
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Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels―has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self.

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Leigh Raiford (Editor), Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Editor)
2017
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How Does Cancer and Cancer Treatment Affect Body Image and Confidence?

Cancer, and cancer treatment, can change your body, what it looks like and your body confidence. Young people and teenagers share how cancer changed their body but how they still feel still like themselves.

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2019
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DCN Presents an Interview with Ballerina Misty Copeland at Halcyon Stage, 1/24/17

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Misty Copeland
2017
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Black Well-Being