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Rebecca Walker (born Rebecca Leventhal; November 17, 1969) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of the African American womanist writer Alice Walker and the Jewish-American civil rights lawyer Melvyn R. Leventhal. Her Jewish father is white, and her Black mother was raised Christian.
Rebecca Walker in 2003. The term third wave is credited to Walker's 1992 article, "Becoming the Third Wave." [ 1 ] Third-wave feminism is a feminist movement that began in the early 1990s, [ 2 ] prominent in the decades prior to the fourth wave. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Grounded in the civil-rights advances of the second wave, Gen X third-wave feminists born ...
Rebecca Walker (born March 2, 1968) is an American politician. In 2010, she was elected to represent the 9th district in the Delaware House of Representatives. [1] In 2014, she declined to seek reelection to accept a director position at Widener University, and in 2015, she became deputy director of the Delaware Division of Forensic Science, which had been created months earlier through ...
Meshell Ndegeocello (/ mɪˈʃɛl ənˌdeɪɡeɪoʊˈtʃɛloʊ / mish-EL ən-DAY-gay-oh-CHEL-oh; [2] born Michelle Lynn Johnson on August 29, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and bassist. She has gone by the name Meshell Suhaila Bashir-Shakur which is used as a writing credit on some of her mid-career work. [3]
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [3][4] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
Melvyn R. Leventhal. Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal (born March 18, 1943) [1] is an American attorney known for his work as a community organizer and lawyer in the 1960s–70s Civil Rights Movement, and for being the husband of author Alice Walker for ten years; they were the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi history.
Rebecca Walker and Ricci Guarnaccio were cast as replacements. The series featured Sophie and Joel's rocky relationship coming to an end, Vicky being torn between her boyfriend Dan and new cast member Ricci, [ 14 ] Charlotte admitting she'd finally had enough of seeing Gaz with other girls, [ 15 ] and the beginning of Holly and James. [ 16 ]