Audrey Célestine, black women in banner
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Portrait of Audrey Célestine, she publishes "Fighting lives, women, blacks and free", by Iconoclasts.
Credit: Ed Alcock
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
50 min
Audrey Célestine publishes the book Des vies de combat: black et free women, published by the Iconoclast.
The biography of sixty black women, from Rosa Parks to Toni Morrison.
From the end of slavery to Black Lives Matter, they have led fighting lives.
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Rosa Parks, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Christiane Taubira.
Five names among the 62 women that Audrey Célestine has chosen to highlight.
She tells the story of exceptional women, famous or less famous, from the end of the 19th century to the present day in short chapters.
Three elements unite all the characters with their destinies: they are women, black and free.
Audrey Célestine
is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Lille, and a member of the National Committee for the History and Memory of Slavery.
The book
Des vies de combat
was published by Éditions de l'Iconoclaste.
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