Dear CNN: We’ll Show You Our Slave Roots If You Show Us Yours
First, if you haven’t read the post from Renee at Womanist Musings (reposted here on Feministe) titled “The Obamas and the Door of No Return,” please do. It’s about the Obama’s visit to Cape Coast Castle, a memorial site for the African slave trade in Ghana. As part of CNN’s coverage of the trip, “Anderson [...]
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First Guns Have Arrived!
Hello Feministe! We’re Thunder and Lighting, aka the First Guns, aka Michelle Obama’s arms. Maybe you’ve heard of us? When we started getting so much attention a while back, we launched our blog as a place for us to respond. We tend to blog about the way the media covers us, and Michelle, as well [...]
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