Black Women Won’t Save the World

Audrey Shipp
Sep 3, 2018 · 3 min read

For: Erica Garner

Despite pronouncements to the contrary, Black Women won’t save the world. Notwithstanding the circumference of the Cradle of Civilization in South Africa nestled in a locale from which all human beings originate; regardless of the excavations in Ethiopia of both Lucy and Ardi marking the evolution of homo erectus and what that signifies to the world in the evolutionary flowering of life…

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Audrey Shipp

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Writer in Los Angeles. Inspirations: The International Left, Black/African Diaspora, W.E.B. Du Bois.

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