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Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee
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·Sep 23, 2020

The Long and Sordid History of Forced Sterilization Programs

The whistleblower nurse in Georgia told a grim story that’s been a part of American history for decades — Charmaine Fuller Cooper was outraged — but not surprised — when she heard recent allegations that a Georgia detention center performed medically questionable hysterectomies on undocumented immigrants without their consent. On September 14, advocacy groups filed a complaint that accused the Irwin County Detention Center, which houses immigrants for federal…

History

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The Long and Sordid History of Forced Sterilization Programs
The Long and Sordid History of Forced Sterilization Programs
History

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Published in GEN

·Aug 26, 2020

Textbooks Watered Down the Civil Rights Movement. They Could Do the Same to Black Lives Matter.

Too often our schools gloss over the intricacies and struggles of Black liberation — This piece is part of The Uprising Marches On, a package on what’s next for the movement for Black lives. If LaGarrett King were to write a high-school U.S. history textbook, he’d create a unit on Black Lives Matter. It would start with the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012…

The Uprising Marches On

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Textbooks Watered Down the Civil Rights Movement. They Could Do the Same to Black Lives Matter.
Textbooks Watered Down the Civil Rights Movement. They Could Do the Same to Black Lives Matter.
The Uprising Marches On

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Published in ZORA

·Feb 24, 2020

This Abortion Rights Advocate Fought for Women of Color When No One Else Would

Dorothy Brown’s outspokenness made enemies in Tennessee’s government. But it also changed lives. — Dead-of-the-night emergency phone calls were nothing new for the Nashville, Tennessee household of surgeon Dorothy Brown. But her daughter, Lola, remembers one particular woman who showed up at their home, which also housed her mother’s medical office, sometime between two and three in the morning. “‘Who is it?’ [A shaky…

Abortion Rights

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This Abortion Rights Advocate Fought for Women of Color When No One Else Would
This Abortion Rights Advocate Fought for Women of Color When No One Else Would
Abortion Rights

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Published in GEN

·Dec 10, 2019

The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past

History broke wide open — and so did the arguments about what should be memorialized — This piece is part of the The Whiplash Decade, a package on the wild ride that was the 2010s. On December 10, artist Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War will be unveiled at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. The bronze sculpture will reside permanently on Arthur Ashe Boulevard…

The Whiplash Decade

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The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past
The Decade We Tore Down Our Racist Past
The Whiplash Decade

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Published in GEN

·Nov 5, 2019

How Do You Reclaim a Massacre?

Greensboro didn’t have a “shootout” and Tulsa didn’t have a “race riot.” But it took decades of work for language to catch up to history. — On November 3, 1979, I learned of a group called the Ku Klux Klan. I was a five-year-old black child in kindergarten. I kept my days busy by making mud pies, cutting alphabet letters from construction paper, and practicing my writing with thick, footlong starter pencils. I remember surveying the…

History

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How Do You Reclaim a Massacre?
How Do You Reclaim a Massacre?
History

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Published in ZORA

·Sep 20, 2019

A 21st-Century Lynching Film Explores the Legacy of Racial Violence

This 2019 festival fave shines a light on race in modern-day America — Southern swingsets bear strange fruit. On August 29, 2014, 17-year-old high schooler Lennon Lacy was found dead and hanging from playground equipment near his home in Bladenboro, North Carolina. His death was ruled a suicide, despite evidence that generated more questions than watertight conclusions. …

Racism

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A 21st-Century Lynching Film Explores the Legacy of Racial Violence
A 21st-Century Lynching Film Explores the Legacy of Racial Violence
Racism

10 min read

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Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee

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