Brittney Cooper

Brittney Cooper is a professor at Rutgers University and the author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks on stage before President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation in Wilmington, Delaware on Nov. 7, 2020.

Kamala Harris and Black Women Voters Helped Joe Biden Get Elected. Here's How America Can Do Right by Them

When Americans elected Kamala Harris Vice-President, they symbolically comp...

When Americans elected Kamala Harris Vice-President, they symbolically completed a 150-year project of recognizing the right of Black people to exercise the full franchise as citizens. In 1870, the 15th Amendment gave African American men...

President Donald Trump’s last rally before the 2020 election in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Nov. 3, 2020.

If Donald Trump Wins a Second Term, Blame White People

Since the 2000 election, the first in which I was old enough to vote, the R...

Since the 2000 election, the first in which I was old enough to vote, the Republican Party and the courts have worked together to disenfranchise voters on the left, who are disproportionately people of color....

A mother and daughter protest in Summerville, S.C. on June 1, 2020.

Why Are Black Women and Girls Still an Afterthought in Our Outrage Over Police Violence?

Breonna Taylor was an essential worker. An EMT with aspirations to be a nur...

Breonna Taylor was an essential worker. An EMT with aspirations to be a nurse, she was one of the people whose daily labor of keeping people safe we have come to value anew in the...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speak after the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register.

It Matters That Elizabeth Warren Is a Woman. Why Do So Many on the Left Insist That It Doesn't?

The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational f...

The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational faultiness of specious claims to a post-racial America. For those who refused to see how entrenched racism remained even after Obama’s ascent,...

Stop Asking Whether Women 'Love Themselves Enough' to Leave Their Abusers

What Brittney Cooper learned about self-esteem from her mother's stories of...

What Brittney Cooper learned about self-esteem from her mother's stories of abuse

Reuven Bar-Yotam, Telma Hopkins, Nell Carter, Harry Basil and Brian Backer appear in Gimme A Break!, aired on May 10, 1986.

Black Women Are Not ‘Sassy’ — We’re Angry

Read an excerpt from Brittney Cooper's 'Eloquent Rage'

Beyonce and First Lady Michelle Obama pose onstage during 2015 Global Citizen Festival to end extreme poverty by 2030 in Central Park in New York City on Sept. 26, 2015.

The Power of Beyoncé and Michelle Obama's Friendship

'When Black girls win, we all win'