Intersectionality Matters!

70. How Anti-Blackness Destroys Democracy

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As we slide into autocracy, disparities impacting Black Americans are being ignored while Black excellence is actively erased from our workplaces, museums, and history books. These attacks are no longer cloaked with dog whistles. They're happening in plain sight, and endangering our health, eliminating our jobs, and gutting our civil rights infrastructure. Despite the scale of this attack, the response remains muted—even within our own communities. What must we do to sound the alarm and ensure that others hear it? Where do we go from here?

Featuring:

  • Kimberlé Crenshaw, African American Policy Forum
  • Melanie Campbell, Convener of Black Women's Roundtable
  • Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies
  • Lisa Coleman, President of Adler University
  • Kaye Wise Whitehead, President & CEO National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP)
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