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Josie Pickens

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
2
Latest publication
Sep 25, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Black America Web
Top 1M sites
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Sep 23, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Written by Josie Pickens

    What Assata Shakur Still Teaches Us About Black Freedom, Love And Survival (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone · English

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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

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Written by Josie Pickens

    Carrying The Fire: A Love Letter To Sonia Sanchez (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone · English

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    Before Sonia Sanchez speaks, the room goes still. When she walks into a room, something sacred moves into the space with her. And when she steps toward a microphone, small in posture yet carrying the weight of an entire ancestral mountain range on her shoulders, you are watching a priestess prepare to call down thunder. When her voice rises, a blues cry, a bird call, a mother’s instruction all at once, it settles straight into the marrow of your bones. Writing a letter to Sonia Sanchez means wri

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