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Dark Energy (a poem)
By Samiya A. Bashir Reflecting upon Toni Cade Bambara’s timeless novel The Salt Eaters on the occasion of her 75th birthday anniversary. Toni Cade Bambaraphoto: Chester Higgins Wake from nightmares...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘. . . an uptown Griot’
By Cheryl Clarke In March 2005, Cheryl Clarke was the featured keynote speaker at Spelman College’s Women’s Research and Resource Center’s Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference. The Feminist...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
Kai Barrow’s cultural work Toni Cade Bambara is a life saver. Expert on Black women’s creative and spiritual practice, Akasha Gloria Hull says that Bambara’s enduring work The Salteaters induces and...
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Rage and Meditation: Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara’s 75th Birthday
Word libation in honor of Toni Cade Bambara’s genius: Toni Cade Bambara© Susan J Rosswww.photogriot.com The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
Editors’ Note: Since this is a special forum celebrating the life, work, and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, one of our ancestor heroines, TFW made the editorial decision to republish the slightly revised...
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Black Blessings: Toni Cade Bambara and Octavia E. Butler
By Ayana A. H. Jamieson Octavia ButlerPhotograph/Copyright: Joshua Trujillo/AP The Octavia E. Butler Collection contains thousands of items from Butler’s life and career housed at the Huntington...
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Fondness for Toni Cade Bambara
By Miyoshi Smith I like Toni Cade Bambara’s work, because the language in her stories is so much like the next door neighbor, a relative, children playing, and people experiencing life…When I met her...
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The Art of Getting to the Point
By Wesley Brown Editors’ Note: This previously unpublished essay was originally written in 2002. Toni Cade BambaraSouthern Rural Woman’s Network Conference, 1982Photograph/Copyright: Monica F. Walker...
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Toni Cade Bambara Remembered
By Donald P. Stone Editors’ Note: This previously unpublished essay was originally written in 2001. I met Toni Cade Bambara in the late sixties. She was visiting A. B. and Karen Spellman at their...
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Toni Cade Bambara: The Moment In-Between
By Dr. Eleanor Traylor The telephone rang insistently. I had just crossed the threshold of sleep having entered that territory where angels and demons stage a holy or profane war which consciousness...
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Wholeness, Homeness: A Love Note to Toni
By Rita Dove Toni Cade Bambara,Southern Collective of African American Writers (SCAAW), 1988©Susan J. Ross The year was 1988: Sweet Briar College—a small, rather tony women’s institution in central...
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How Toni Cade Bambara Saved Me
By Imani Uzuri I was a heading into my sophomore year in undergrad, and took my first Women’s Studies class during that Summer. After a full year of beginning to be politicized around my Blackness, I...
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Toni Cade Bambara: ‘…an uptown Griot’
By Cheryl Clarke Editors’ Note: Since this is a special forum celebrating the life, work, and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, one of our ancestor heroines, TFW made the editorial decision to republish...
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Afterword: Toni Cade Bambara’s Living Legacy
#BambaraOnTFW Sixty-nine essays, remembrances, love notes, poems, and videos and thirteen days later, my sister co-curator and co-editor, Heidi Renée Lewis and I are closing The Feminist Wire’s online...
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One Thing: Toni Cade Bambara in the Speaking Everyday
Editors’ Note: Since this is a special forum celebrating the life, work, and legacy of Toni Cade Bambara, one of our ancestor heroines, TFW made the editorial decision to republish the slightly revised...
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Black Blessings: Toni Cade Bambara and Octavia E. Butler
By Ayana A. H. Jamieson Octavia ButlerPhotograph/Copyright: Joshua Trujillo/AP The Octavia E. Butler Collection contains thousands of items from Butler’s life and career housed at the Huntington...
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Fondness for Toni Cade Bambara
By Miyoshi Smith I like Toni Cade Bambara’s work, because the language in her stories is so much like the next door neighbor, a relative, children playing, and people experiencing life…When I met her...
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Personal is Political: The Art of Getting to the Point
By Wesley Brown Editors’ Note: This previously unpublished essay was originally written in 2002. Toni Cade BambaraSouthern Rural Woman’s Network Conference, 1982Photograph/Copyright: Monica F. Walker...
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Toni Cade Bambara Remembered
By Donald P. Stone Editors’ Note: This previously unpublished essay was originally written in 2001. I met Toni Cade Bambara in the late sixties. She was visiting A. B. and Karen Spellman at their...
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Toni Cade Bambara: The Moment In-Between
By Dr. Eleanor Traylor The telephone rang insistently. I had just crossed the threshold of sleep having entered that territory where angels and demons stage a holy or profane war which consciousness...
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