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Advancing justice through intersectional scholarship. Led by @mharrisperry. Named after scholar & educator Anna Julia Cooper. #sistercitizentalks

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Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, was born into slavery and died as the 1964 Civil Rights Act ended legally sanctioned discrimination. She received a scholarship to Saint Augustine’s Normal School and Collegiate Institute at the age of nine years old; she was the fourth Black woman in the world to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Dr. Cooper wrote A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South, and she was honored as the 32nd stamp in the United States Postal Service Black Heritage Series as an activist who gave a voice to the African American community during the 19th and 20th centuries. “The cause of freedom is not the cause of the race or sect, a party of class – it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity” is a quote from Anna J. Cooper located on the pages of the United States Passport. She was most recently commemorated in Holy Women, Holy Men: Celebrating the Saints. 🐦💙✊🏾 #FalconPridePersonified #BelieveInSAU #BHM2026 #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth by @ajccenter

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@npr Weekend Edition, Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe talks about covering the Trump and Biden White Houses in #sistercitizentalks: Black Women in Media Covering National Politics.

Click the link in our bio to catch the full conversation. by @ajccenter

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Check out our #sistercitizentalks conversation with political strategist and CNN contributor Karen Finney.

“On Thursday night, Oct. 19, while Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was still trying to secure his bid to be speaker of the House, Finney sat down to talk with Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou presidential chair at Wake Forest University and founder of the Anna Julia Cooper Center.
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“From the perspective of the public, they see us as less a part of Washington’s system,” Finney remarked as she responded to a question about the challenges and opportunities facing Black women running for elected office, “And in a moment when Americans are increasingly frustrated and suspicious of Institutions, that’s a real benefit for us.”

“This is the kind of insightful, counterintuitive analysis that has made Finney one of the most dynamic and influential Black women in American politics,” said Harris-Perry.

“Rather than seeing Black women candidates through a deficit model based on our relative lack of access to the back rooms of power, Finney articulated why that outsider status is beneficial in a moment when the dysfunction in those back rooms is so readily apparent.”

Finney went on to draw a stark contrast between the leadership crisis among House Republicans and the way the House operated under the leadership of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“She also had a very thin margin, but she did her work. She didn’t just show up on the day of the vote in January and assume by the force of her will she was going to make it happen.” Finney observed, “She met with the people who were opposing her, she heard their concerns, she figured it out that’s and that is a hallmark of women’s leadership. We are good listeners.”

Click the link in our bio to watch the entire #sistercitizentalks taken in Wake Forest University by @ajccenter

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#RosalynnCarter was laid to rest in Plains, Georgia on Wednesday. In 1976, during her husband's campaign for president, Carter defined the attributes of a first lady she would later become.

The global humanitarian, mental health advocate and former First Lady was 96. taken in United States by @ajccenter

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“Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, Democrats have pulled off unlikely victories — in red states and blue states; in oddly timed off-year contests; in places where inflation is high and their unpopular president is especially disliked — because of abortion. They’ve won state-supreme-court seats, legislative majorities, gubernatorial races, and an unbroken string of referendum votes on the issue.”- @rtraister1 for @thecut taken in New York Magazine by @ajccenter

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Named for the famed anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the Ida B. Wells Residency brought a distinguished journalist with a record of writing about Southern political issues with an eye on gender and racial equality for a week-long residency at Wake Forest University. During her 2015 residency, Reid engaged with the community, sharing expertise with faculty and guest-teaching. She delivered the Oct. 14 public lecture in which she discussed bias and objectivity in journalism, media coverage of police-involved violence against civilians and the rise of citizen journalism. by @ajccenter

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Sister Citizens: Conversations with Black Women in US Politics and Media is a conversation series hosted by Professor Melissa Harris Perry and presented by The Anna Julia Cooper Center and Ms. Foundation for Women. This series examines Black women’s participation in American politics as citizens, residents, voters, activists, candidates, elected officials, and media makers.

The event on December 7 features Joy Reid, author and host of MSNBC’s The Reid Out. @thereidout

Events appear live on Facebook on select Thursdays throughout Fall 2023 at 6:30PM ET. by @ajccenter

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NPR's Weekend Edition, Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe talked about the power and influence of Black women's sisterhood in national media. Check out the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/live/dtQ-CSUGlFc?si=K3zavHBaQesDkkjU by @ajccenter

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Have you tuned into our series #sistercitizentalks? by @ajccenter

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NPR's Ayesha Roscoe joined us for another edition of Sister Citizen Talks!

You can watch all of the conversation series on our FB and YouTube. by @ajccenter

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For the third edition of our Sister Citizen Talks series, District Attorney for Durham, NC, Satana Deberry talks about the peril and promise of progressive Black women prosecutors.

Join us Nov. 16 and Dec. 7 for our final two conversations with NPR's Ayesha Roscoe and MSNBC's Joy Reid respectively.

Catch all conversations in our series by going to our FB and YouTube channels. by @ajccenter

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Former senior spokesperson to @hillaryclinton's 2016 campaign, former senior adviser to past Georgia gubernatorial candidate @staceyabrams and @cnn contributor Karen Finney joined the AJC Center for the second edition of our #SisterCitizensTalks. She discussed insights gleaned from decades of political communications and campaign experience. Read the full WABE article about the event 🔗: https://www.wabe.org/ex-senior-advisor-to-past-georgia-gubernatorial-candidate-stacey-abrams-discusses-politics/ by @ajccenter

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