Black Women Taught Us: Love Letters, Liberation, and the Courage to Tell the Truth with Dr. Jenn Jackson

Join Niccara as she sits down with the Dr. Jen Jackson - award-winning political science professor at Syracuse University, Teen Vogue columnist, and author of Black Women Taught Us - for a conversation that is equal parts history lesson, love letter, and call to action.

And y'all, this one was personal. We get into: How Dr.

Jackson's Black feminism didn't start in a classroom: it started with Auntie Donna Faye teaching them how to move in their six-foot-four body Why the everyday Black women in our lives deserve the same reverence we give to Audre Lorde and Angela Davis ,and what it means to pedestalize ancestors while treating the ones right in front of us as disposable What Fannie Lou Hamer actually teaches us about respectability politics, who has access to it, whose body never did, and why being "unrespectable" is sometimes the most radical and honest act of survival How Ida B. Wells inspired Dr.

Jackson to tell the truth about their own identity, and what it costs when we betray ourselves to perform solidarity Why this book couldn't fully live inside a college classroom, and what Toni Morrison, bell hooks, and Fannie Lou Hamer's stories hold that syllabi simply can't Where Dr. Jackson points readers who want to do something - not just feel something - and why they believes every one of us has power inside our own orbit to make real change Perfect for readers who love Black feminist history, are doing the work of unlearning respectability politics, want to understand liberation movements through intimate and personal storytelling, and believe that honoring our ancestors means telling the truth.. even when it's costly.

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