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intheflow
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intheflow's Journal
April 2, 2015
That's Dorothy Pitman Hughes with Steinem, not Angela Davis.
Lots of people make that mistake, including the NY Post editorial screen capture you included in your OP.
http://www.critical-theory.com/whoops-new-york-post-columnist-cant-tell-black-people-apart/
http://jimromenesko.com/2014/01/06/new-york-post-columnist-mistakes-dorothy-pitman-hughes-for-angela-davis/
Here's the original photo with proper attribution from the Smith College archives: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/agents/steinemhughes.html
Here's a little write-up on the recreated photo in 2014:
http://nagonthelake.blogspot.com/2014/10/gloria-steinem-and-dorothy-pitman.html
Edited to add: "We are women. We are still fighting after all these years." But black women are still fighting to just be recognized, apparently.
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