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OPINION: A poetic meditation on Assata Shakur and liberation

Editor’s note: The following article and video are contributed opinion pieces, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions, poetry, and literary submissions on theGrio. A Preemptive Eulogy for Assata Shakur Crawl, Assata, crawl!Under barbed wire ideologies.Walk, Assata, walk, casuallyRight past them,Pressed hair, crisp suit, painted face, sunshadesSo they

Belva Davis—first Black woman hired as TV journalist on West Coast—dies at 92

Legendary, Emmy-award winning journalist Belva Davis, who broke barriers by becoming the first Black woman television journalist on the West Coast, has passed away, according to the Bay Area’s KQED. She was 92.  Davis’ career spanned decades and generations and included covering stories as diverse and varied as the 1964