By Patrice Peck — 2021
Mother-daughter bonds within the Black community can be powerful counters against systemic oppression. We invited four moms to share their wisdom in open letters to their daughters.
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White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
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While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.
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Amid protests against police brutality and structural racism toward black Americans, some lean into the joy of tradition as resistance.