An event of the RADICAL BLACK WOMEN Series, this online political education series pays homage to historical radical leftist Black women.

About the event:

For the second installment in the #RadicalBlackWomenSeries, join us for “Claudia Jones, Afro-Asian Solidarity, and Black Left Visions of Peace” with scholar Zifeng Liu on Tuesday, June 29th from 6:30-8:00 PM EST. Liu will discuss his work on Trinidadian leftist-feminist Claudia Jones and explore Jones’ radical politics and solidarity with Maoist China, internationalism, and anticolonial thought.

Black women leaders such as Charlotta Bass, Williana Burroughs, Angie Dickerson, Shirley Graham Dubois, Lorraine Hansberry, Claudia Jones, Una Marson, Charlene Mitchell, Louise Thompson Patterson, Eslanda Goode Robeson, and more have always been at the forefront of radical political organizing. Their political and intellectual productions have catalyzed, sustained, and transformed movement building in both historical and contemporary aspects. However, oftentimes their activism have been siloed due to a lack of the intersectional interrogation of their lives and leadership.

How do we honor the lives, leadership, and legacies of these radical Black women? What are ways to interrogate their political memories as integral to the Black radical tradition? How do we incorporate their political and intellectual productions in our own praxes? What are ways to ensure their work will not be lost among present and future radical organizers?