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Salamishah Tillet

Salamishah Tillet
Salamishah Tillet is a scholar, cultural critic, and activist. A professor at Rutgers University-Newark and previously a professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she is a contributing critic-at-large for the New York Times. With her sister, she cofounded A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based national nonprofit that uses art to empower young people to end violence against girls and women. She lives in New Jersey.


The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

Salamishah Tillet on Giving Voice to Survivors
January 11, 2021  By Salamishah Tillet
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