Josie Pickens
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Black America Web
- Top 1M sites
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- Sep 23, 2026
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What Assata Shakur Still Teaches Us About Black Freedom, Love And Survival (opens the original)
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I can’t remember the first time I heard Assata Shakur’s words. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” They’ve been with me for so long that I can’t locate their beginning. Somewhere in the years I spent becoming a writer and organizer, a Black woman trying to understand what it meant to love Black people enough to fight for us, Assata’s words became part of the language I carried. I’ve heard her words shouted into megaphones and spoken in crowded rooms. I’ve seen them
What Assata Shakur Still Teaches Us About Black Freedom, Love And Survival (opens the original)
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I can’t remember the first time I heard Assata Shakur’s words. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” They’ve been with me for so long that I can’t locate their beginning. Somewhere in the years I spent becoming a writer and organizer, a Black woman trying to understand what it meant to love Black people enough to fight for us, Assata’s words became part of the language I carried. I’ve heard her words shouted into megaphones and spoken in crowded rooms. I’ve seen them
What Assata Shakur Still Teaches Us About Black Freedom, Love And Survival (opens the original)
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I can’t remember the first time I heard Assata Shakur’s words. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” They’ve been with me for so long that I can’t locate their beginning. Somewhere in the years I spent becoming a writer and organizer, a Black woman trying to understand what it meant to love Black people enough to fight for us, Assata’s words became part of the language I carried. I’ve heard her words shouted into megaphones and spoken in crowded rooms. I’ve seen them
What Assata Shakur Still Teaches Us About Black Freedom, Love And Survival (opens the original)
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I can’t remember the first time I heard Assata Shakur’s words. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” They’ve been with me for so long that I can’t locate their beginning. Somewhere in the years I spent becoming a writer and organizer, a Black woman trying to understand what it meant to love Black people enough to fight for us, Assata’s words became part of the language I carried. I’ve heard her words shouted into megaphones and spoken in crowded rooms. I’ve seen them
What Assata Shakur Still Teaches Us About Black Freedom, Love And Survival (opens the original)
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I can’t remember the first time I heard Assata Shakur’s words. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.” They’ve been with me for so long that I can’t locate their beginning. Somewhere in the years I spent becoming a writer and organizer, a Black woman trying to understand what it meant to love Black people enough to fight for us, Assata’s words became part of the language I carried. I’ve heard her words shouted into megaphones and spoken in crowded rooms. I’ve seen them
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