black lives matter – ANDREA ROBERTS

PUB: African American Planning, Cooperative Economics, & Community Building Minus the Respectability Politics.

Jul 11, 2016Andrea RobertsUncategorizedblack, black lives matter, building, community, domestic, farmers, feminism, history, justice, memory, planning, preservation, respectability, social, sustainability, Texas, womanism, women

Looking for examples of anti-banking system, anti-respectability, pro-cooperative Black planning &community building? Try 19th Century Texas History. I recently published an article on race gender, planning, and mutual aid called “The Farmers’ Improvement Society and the Women’s Barnyard Auxiliary of Texas: African American Community Building in the Progressive Era,” in the Journal of Planning History.…

Ava DuVernay: Filmmaker as Griot

Jan 18, 2015Andrea RobertsUncategorizedactivism, african american, Ava DuVernay, black, black feminist, black lives matter, civil rights, diaspora, film, history, MLK, oprah, racism, Selma, south, story, storytelling, voting, white, women

I have a lot to say about the movie Selma, but I frankly feel like I’ll need to see it again before I play armchair filmmaker. What I do feel confident talking about is Selma as a storytelling enterprise. Storytelling is on my mind a lot lately. Mostly because it is a large part of…

What the “Fire Next Time” Should Look Like: From Rage to Revelation after Ferguson

Nov 25, 2014Andrea RobertsUncategorizedblack, black lives matter, civil rights, CNN, ferguson, history, mike brown, Missouri, msnbc, next time, Obama, police, politics, respectability, solutions, struggle, woman

“Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity” ― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time For Benicio I awoke this morning feeling a little weary. Groggy, and frankly disappointed. But I felt compelled to…