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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, and living there as a child, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of Alice Walker, a Black Protestant womanist writer, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. Her parents became active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.
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 ...
In March 2014, it was announced that the film rights had been optioned, with Madonna directing. [1] As of June 2017, Madonna was in pre-production on an unrelated film and Rebecca Walker removed any reference to Madonna's involvement with a screen adaption of Adé from her Twitter account.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Rebecca De Mornay (born August 29, 1959 [1] [2] [3] [a]) is an American actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she starred in Risky Business . De Mornay is also known for her roles in The Slugger's Wife (1985), Runaway Train (1985), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Backdraft (1991), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992).
At that time, the interracial marriage was illegal in Walker's home state of Georgia. [5] When the couple returned to Mississippi in July 1967, they were the first legally married interracial couple in the state. [6] Walker and Leventhal had one child, Rebecca Walker. They divorced in 1976. [7]
In 1996, she and Rebecca Walker, daughter of novelist Alice Walker, opened Kokobar, the first cybercafe owned and operated by African-American women, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with financial backing from, among others, rockstar Tracy Chapman, filmmaker Spike Lee and Rita Owens (mother of Dana Owens, a.k.a. Queen Latifah). [9]