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Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
Toni Cade Bambara (born March 25, 1939, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1995, Philadelphia, Pa.) was an American writer, civil-rights activist, and teacher who wrote about the concerns of the African-American community.
Oct 19, 2009 · Miltona Mirkin Cade, better known as Toni Cade Bambara, was a civil rights activist, writer, teacher, and filmmaker. She was born in 1939 in Harlem, New York. At the age of six, she changed her name to Toni, and in 1970 she added the surname Bambara after finding it among her great-grandmother’s belongings.
Since 2000, Spelman College’s annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference has honored her legacy of involvement, drawing students to engage in scholarship and activism, and to explore the lives of Black/African women.
Dec 11, 1995 · Toni Cade Bambara, a writer and documentary film maker who was celebrated for her intricate use of Black English in fiction, died on Saturday at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was 56 and...
Photograph of a police officer restraining a young protester. Many writers in the 1960s and 1970s were profoundly affected by the civil rights movement, including activist Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara’s writing focuses on the need for societies to adapt without sacrificing their identities.
Feb 1, 2022 · Toni Cade Bambara’s “Working At It in Five Parts” is a hidden gem of prismatic self-reflection that we were surprised to find collecting dust in the Spelman College Archives along her voluminous letters, story drafts, teaching lesson plans, and much more.
Nov 26, 2014 · Although Toni had been part of the academy and was both an award-winning writer and filmmaker, she saw her “constituency” to be young Black girls, grown Black women, maids, nannies, hospital workers, homeless folks. Toni would bypass paid speaking engagements to engage folks in a homeless shelter.
Dec 15, 1995 · Toni Cade Bambara, a writer and filmmaker who raised her eloquent voice to tell the tale of black oppression, has died after a two-year battle with colon cancer. She was 56.
Nov 29, 2014 · Sister-warrior-healer Cara Page shared that Toni Cade Bambara’s organizing work around both the Atlanta Child Murders and the 1985 state sanctioned bombing of a residential African-American neighborhood and the massacre of many members of the MOVE organization and family in Philadelphia were precursors to the current Black Lives Matter ...
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