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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

Read on time.com

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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a...

adrienne maree brown

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Are Americans Obsessed with Race and Gender? | Middle Ground

A group of young Americans from various racial and gender backgrounds discuss some of the most controversial topics regarding racial and gender identity and discrimination.

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Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans.

Rosalind S. Chou

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Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J.

Saraciea J. Fennell (editor)

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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has created a community to help women fight together.

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez

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Are You “AAPI” or “Asian American”? It’s Complicated. | A People’s History of Asian America

How many A’s in AAPI? Dolly & Adrian hear from South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander voices to explore the pros and cons of disaggregating Asian American as a statistical category.

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Can Filipinos claim “Pacific Islander”? | Breaking The Tabo | Episode 3 | One Down

Filipino Americans are often wondering - are they classified as Hispanic, Asian, or Pacific Islander!? In this week's episode, we explore the classification of "Pacific Islander" and if Filipinos fit into that definition, while also taking a look into the creation of the term "Asian American."

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A Burst of Light and Other Essays

This path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer.

Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez (foreword)

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