Push the Line

I first saw Angela Bowen on July 29th, 1979, in New Haven Connecticut at a Take Back the Night March on the New Haven Green. She followed the fiery American radical feminist activist and writer, Andrea Dworkin, best known for her analysis of pornography. Angela was the only Black woman to speak at the mostly white well-attended rally. I don't remember most of the details of Angela's speech, what I do remember was how taken I was with how she spoke to an audience. She brought us into her world.