Playlist for Show: Praxis

Host Taylor Weech shares a collection of speeches and essays from four leading black women thinkers and activists of the 20th and 21st centuries: Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, and Alice Walker to remember their legacy during a time when many women of color of a new generation are continuing to move their work forward and in new directions.

Includes:
“The Transformation of Silence into Language & Action”, Audre Lorde
https://www.csusm.edu/sjs/documents/silenceintoaction.pdf

Assata Shakur speaking from Cuba about her activism, experience in the justice system, and more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYqYlvboEg

“I Am A Black Revolutionary Woman”, Angela Davis (1971) read by Ruby Dee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNnzV5a3Uc

“Reflections on Working Towards Peace”, Alice Walker: https://legacy.scu.edu/ethics/architects-of-peace/Walker/essay.html

Additionally, read this second Audre Lorde piece: http://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf

For local events mentioned, visit the EWU Black Student Union Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/EWUBlackStudentUnion

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