Myrna Bain (original) (raw)
Myrna Bain (November 27, 1939 – April 12, 2007) born Myrna Delores Bain, was an activist, grass-roots organizer, scholar and writer. She was an influential member of several organizations founded by LGBTI women of color, most notably: The Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (with Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett). Bain was also a renowned professor of Black Studies for the City University of New York for several decades (at Hunter College, John Jay College and New York Institute of Technology). The Myrna Bain Scholarship at John Jay College is dedicated to her memory.
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| dbo:abstract | Myrna Bain (November 27, 1939 – April 12, 2007) born Myrna Delores Bain, was an activist, grass-roots organizer, scholar and writer. She was an influential member of several organizations founded by LGBTI women of color, most notably: The Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (with Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett). Bain was also a renowned professor of Black Studies for the City University of New York for several decades (at Hunter College, John Jay College and New York Institute of Technology). The Myrna Bain Scholarship at John Jay College is dedicated to her memory. Bain was also influential as the teacher of many published feminist writers in the United States and internationally including Dorothea Smartt, Donna Aza-Weir Soley, Tracie Morris and Marianne Goodreax-Fielder. Bain was an active writer who associated with Amiri Baraka, Quincy Troupe, Audre Lorde and most notably, James Baldwin. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Myrna Bain (November 27, 1939 – April 12, 2007) born Myrna Delores Bain, was an activist, grass-roots organizer, scholar and writer. She was an influential member of several organizations founded by LGBTI women of color, most notably: The Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (with Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett). Bain was also a renowned professor of Black Studies for the City University of New York for several decades (at Hunter College, John Jay College and New York Institute of Technology). The Myrna Bain Scholarship at John Jay College is dedicated to her memory. (en) |
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