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We believe Jews of Color deserve agency to be the best experts of thier own narrative due to their first hand knowledge of racism and discrimination.

AJOCC envisions a world where we live out our Jewish traditions of justice, embrace the beauty and multiplicity of Jewish identities, overcome past and present oppressions, and trust in one another, and our partners to pursue liberation together. We provide local Jews of Color a platform to speak for themselves, and not have narratives controlled by people who don’t know or don’t understand the c

02/08/2026

Black History is American History.
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Some of the first park rangers in America weren’t rangers at all. They were Buffalo Soldiers—Black Americans who served in the U.S. Army after the Civil War. These soldiers protected wildlife from poachers, built trails, and helped shape the foundations of our national parks.

Interior continues to preserve and honor the history of these first rangers at places like Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, Fort Selden National Historic Site, Yosemite National Park and more.

We invite you to explore the numerous sites in the National Park System that have the distinction of possessing a history with these famed soldiers.

02/02/2026
Born into slavery in 1858, Cooper grew up in a country that had been designed to exclude her from education, power, and public voice. She refused all three exclusions. She became a scholar, educator, writer, and one of the most incisive thinkers on race, gender, and justice in American history at a time when Black women were expected to be silent, grateful, or invisible. In 1892, she published A Voice from the South, a collection of essays that argued something radical then and still uncomfortable now: that the status of a society could be measured by how it treated its Black women. She insisted that racism and sexism could not be separated. That progress built for only some women was not progress at all. And that education was not just a personal achievement, but a collective responsibility. This wasn’t abstract theory. Anna Julia Cooper spent decades in classrooms and institutions, fighting for access to education for Black students and women often against both white supremacy and respectability politics within reform movements themselves. She didn’t just argue that Black women deserved education. She proved what happened when they were finally allowed it. At the age of 65, Cooper earned a doctorate from the University of Paris one of the first Black women in the world to do so. She wrote her dissertation in French. Because she could. But like so many women thinkers, her work was later simplified, sidelined, or quoted without credit. Her ideas were absorbed into movements that didn’t always name her. Her clarity was softened to make others more comfortable. Anna Julia Cooper was not asking for inclusion. She was demanding recognition of intellect, of agency, of moral authority. Her work reminds us that feminism without race is incomplete, and racial justice without women’s voices is hollow. That education is never neutral. And that some of the sharpest critiques of power have always come from those who were never meant to have it. And it’s why her voice still matters now. #feminism #feminist #womeninhistory #herstory #hiddenfigures 02/02/2026

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Born into slavery in 1858, Cooper grew up in a country that had been designed to exclude her from education, power, and public voice. She refused all three exclusions. She became a scholar, educator, writer, and one of the most incisive thinkers on race, gender, and justice in American history at a time when Black women were expected to be silent, grateful, or invisible. In 1892, she published A Voice from the South, a collection of essays that argued something radical then and still uncomfortable now: that the status of a society could be measured by how it treated its Black women. She insisted that racism and sexism could not be separated. That progress built for only some women was not progress at all. And that education was not just a personal achievement, but a collective responsibility. This wasn’t abstract theory. Anna Julia Cooper spent decades in classrooms and institutions, fighting for access to education for Black students and women often against both white supremacy and respectability politics within reform movements themselves. She didn’t just argue that Black women deserved education. She proved what happened when they were finally allowed it. At the age of 65, Cooper earned a doctorate from the University of Paris one of the first Black women in the world to do so. She wrote her dissertation in French. Because she could. But like so many women thinkers, her work was later simplified, sidelined, or quoted without credit. Her ideas were absorbed into movements that didn’t always name her. Her clarity was softened to make others more comfortable. Anna Julia Cooper was not asking for inclusion. She was demanding recognition of intellect, of agency, of moral authority. Her work reminds us that feminism without race is incomplete, and racial justice without women’s voices is hollow. That education is never neutral. And that some of the sharpest critiques of power have always come from those who were never meant to have it. And it’s why her voice still matters now. #feminism #feminist #womeninhistory #herstory #hiddenfigures

02/01/2026

When people talk about the history of Blacks and Jews, many look to the Civil Rights Movement, glorifying bonds created from a shared history of oppression. At the same time, others focus on divisions between the communities, zeroing in on antisemitism in Black communities, examples of bigotry in Jewish communities, or the tension surging around Israel and the war in Gaza.

A new four-part PBS docuseries, “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History,” the latest documentary from Harvard professor and “Finding Your Roots” creator Henry Louis Gates Jr., prepares to tackle every angle of a complex history spanning back to before America’s birth. Premiering on Tuesday, Feb. 3, on PBS, the docuseries is not only funded by Black and Jewish philanthropists but is a lesson on the impact of philanthropy on American history.

“A lot of previous conversations about [Black and Jewish relations] really just look at that golden era or just look at the divisions that have come in the last decades, but we’re trying to take a holistic view about how race and cast [were] established in America,” Sara Wolitzky, co-executive producer/director of the docuseries, told eJewishPhilanthropy.

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