Women's Magazine this Monday on KPFA

> Sistahs On The Run - Black women in Exile
>
> Today The Women’s Magazine will take a cursory look at
> the lives of several women intimately involved in the
> fight for human rights and self-determinatoin of
> Afrikan peoples. From ante-bellum-era lynchings to
> modern-day police terrorism, these sistah-warriors ...
> daughters, mothers and grandmothers ... have used
> every method at their disposable to agitate and
> advocate for the rights of Black people and all humans
> who are oppressed. For this, their ‘crime of
> resistance,’ they have had to pay a heavy price -
> exile from their families, their homes and their
> communities. In spite of this and other hardships,
> these women have continued to carry on the tradition
> of resistance.
>
>
> Ida B.Wells
> Investigative journalist, author, orator, activist and
> organizer for human rights
>
> Mabel Williams
> With her husband Robert F. Williams, were leaders in
> the Monroe, NC chapter of the NAACP. Later in Cuba,
> they founded Radio Free Dixie
>
> Kathleen Cleaver
> Member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating
> Committee; Communications Secretary and first woman on
> the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party for
> Self-Defense
>
> Charlotte O’Neal
> With her husband Pete, members of the Kansas City, MO
> chapter of the Black Panther Party for
> Self-Defensehave lived, worked and organized primarily
> in Tanzania, East Afrika since fleeing the United
> States in 1969.
>
> Assata Shakur
> Member of the Black Panther for Self-Defense and
> reputed member of the Black Liberation Army, viciously
> assaulted by New Jersey State Troopers in May 1973 and
> unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a Trooper, she
> escaped from prison on November 2, 1979 and currently
> resides in Cuba where she has been given political
> asylum.
>
> Aisha Irungu
> Former school teacher, revolutionary artist and
> community activist forced to flee the U.S. after
> continued harassment from the FBI for her activities.
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