Thandisizwe Chimurenga talks about the threats to the Black Women’s movement of the new Trump regime

A society born of white supremacy and patriarchy must, by definition, ignore the voices of Black women. We know that unfortunately, such an attitude will also naturally seep into every stratum of that society. With the ascent of the Trump regime, a whole range of policies and practices are being implemented and more to be planned on both on the USA domestic scene as well as on the international arena. Thandisizwe Chimurenga is an award winning, Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and writer. She is a former reporter, producer and co-anchor for Free Speech Radio News as well as the KPFK Evening News (Pacifica-Los Angeles). She is a New Afrikan revolutionary nationalist, a longtime activist, independent grassroots journalist and author based in South Central Los Angeles, CA. Thandisizwe is the creator, host and producer of “Rootwork: Getting Down to the Roots,” a broadcast of Interviews, News and Analysis of people, ideas, concepts and events that aim to dig deeper than mainstream colonial media, currently airing on KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica-Los Angeles) and the Black Liberation Media platform. She edited a two-volume series published by Daraja Press – Some of Us Are Brave. Volume 1 contains interviews under the headings The Shoulders on Which We Stand and Black Lives Have ­Always Mattered. Volume 2 covers Black Women’s Health, Bruthas on ­Sistas, and Sistas in Struggle. These were contributions to correct that was the centering and airing of Black women’s voices through Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Radio Program that aired on Pacifica’s Los Angeles radio station (KPFK) from 2003 until 2011. The program covered a myriad of issues by amplifying the voices of a broad cross-section of Black women. Some of those voices have been preserved here in this volume. In addition to capturing various moments in time with a ­variety of women, this is also a means of taking the intellec­tual production of and about Black women out of the hands of institutions that are both fundamentally ­anti-Black and anti-woman.

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