Whether it’s the students in her classes at Rutgers University, audiences watching her on various MSNBC shows, or the scholars and other students who pack her lectures around the world, Cooper has demonstrated her command of a multitude of topics, including the ever-evolving political project of Black Feminism, the history of Black women intellectuals, and how hip hop has informed her feminism.

Brittney Cooper speaks, the world stops to listen. This story was originally published on February 20, 2018. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 It is our hope that by the end of it, you’re revved up and ready to rage in a time when it’s more important than ever to put women’s anger to work. We get to decide how we wield our anger, and this series is a mere entry point for a canon of work about women’s rage. “The Future is Furious” is a weeklong series about women’s anger-and, more specifically, about how that anger is policed, dismissed, and overlooked because its potent, transformative social and political power terrifies people.

Women’s anger is a powerful, unshakeable force that sends people from marginalized communities into the streets, the courtrooms, the classrooms, and beyond to fight for the more just world that our ancestors fought for and our descendants will fight for long after we’re gone. Women’s anger has fueled every political movement in the United States, from suffrage to Civil Rights to #MeToo.

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