Berkeley Talks: The making of Frances M. Beal’s ‘Black feminist house’
Humanities, Politics & society Berkeley Talks: The making of Frances M. Beal’s ‘Black feminist house’ UC Berkeley Professor Ula Taylor reads excerpts from her book project on the pioneering Black feminist whose life and politics helped shape modern social justice movements. By Anne Brice July 24, 2026 Follow Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley.
- ▪Humanities, Politics & society Berkeley Talks: The making of Frances M.
- ▪Beal’s ‘Black feminist house’ UC Berkeley Professor Ula Taylor reads excerpts from her book project on the pioneering Black feminist whose life and politics helped shape modern social justice movements.
- ▪By Anne Brice July 24, 2026 Follow Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley.
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Humanities, Politics & society Berkeley Talks: The making of Frances M. Beal’s ‘Black feminist house’ UC Berkeley Professor Ula Taylor reads excerpts from her book project on the pioneering Black feminist whose life and politics helped shape modern social justice movements. By Anne Brice July 24, 2026 Follow Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. See all Berkeley Talks. In 1957, a terrified 17-year-old girl lay on a Harlem kitchen table undergoing an illegal, backstreet abortion. Nearly dying from complications, she was rushed to a hospital ward where nurses badgered her and demanded to know what she had done. That teenager was Frances M. Beal.
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