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Marvel Cooke testifies before the Senate anti-communist witch-hunt in September 1953. | People s World Archives
At the intersection of African American History and Women’s History months is a long list of Black women who have made history as civil rights, labor, and peace activists, educators, scientists, elected officials, physicians, astronauts, artists, and much more.
Prominent among them, and combining several of those roles, is the journalist and activist Marvel Cooke. In her long life (1903-2000), Cooke participated in such crucial and often interrelated developments as the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the intense upsurge of labor organizing in the 1930s, and decades of work for world peace, civil rights, and civil liberties.
Historian, literary scholar and organizer Shana Russell will deliver the 24th W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Lecture at Bard College at Simonâs Rock via Zoom.
Shana Russell, who holds a doctorate in American studies from Rutgers University, will explore the relationship between storytelling, scholarship and activism in a Monday evening lecture. PHOTO PROVIDED BY SHANA RUSSELL
Russell, an assistant professor of English at Bard High School Early College Newark, will discuss her research on domestic workers and her role in the Rikers Public Memory Project, which documents the experiences of people impacted by incarceration through New Yorkâs Rikers Island jail complex.