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Potential paper topic: improving the Wiki article of "Ma" Rainey.

- A quick review of this articles history page brings an important topic up in regards to the section labeled "Life and career." An edit was made to the last paragraph in that section that addresses Rainey's homosexual lyrics and their contributions to the lesbian movement. I agree with the editor in that highlighting this aspect of her music, while failing to address the countless heterosexual lyrics of her music, would discredit Rainey's efforts to address the problems faced by women in patriarchal relationships, specifically the private problem of domestic violence/abuse.

- If this article is going to focus on some parts of her lyrics, it should also include, as stated above, her lyrics that tackle to issue of domestic violence, but not just that. It should also show representation of her lyrics that tackled issues of class, wealth, poverty, travel, and sexual liberation.

- Under the "Legacy" tab it lists people who have written about Rainey. In it should be included Angela Y Davis' book "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism."

-There is no link in the second paragraph that states the claim that Rainey solely recorded with Paramount.

- This wiki article differs greatly from the way we would talk about it in class because there are no arguments, or opinions, it is merely there to represent well known "credible" knowledge. This ties into Collin's discussion of black feminist epistemology. In our class, people can chime in with arguments and back up their arguments with evidence that is personal (ie. their experiences). In class, just as in black feminist epistemology, we can take peoples experience as truth because there is a certain understanding that experience breeds wisdom and understanding. On wiki, being that it derives from Eurocentric viewpoints on credibility, you can not input your person experiences to support a fact or piece of knowledge in an article, because that isn't considered a reliable source. Wikipedia, although a fantastic source of knowledge that is based off of multiple unbiased sources, nevertheless still has it's problems when it comes to who or what is considered a "credible source." 2. Potential paper topic: editing/adding information to Jo Ann Robinson's Wiki page.

This page is lacking a lot of critical information about Jo Ann Robinson that Danielle L. McGuire presents in her book "At The Dark End of The Street." Errors in grammar, spelling and syntax are also present throughout her page. Tidying up these small error would give her page more credit. I would pan on improving on this page by adding more information in regards to her activism and involvement in various organizations during AND prior to the civil rights movement.There are also some claims throughout the text that are questionable and I would need to verify them with the listed source. For example, on the wiki page it states that Robinson distributed the flyers for the boycott WITH Rosa Parks permission, but McGuire's book says otherwise (Robinson did not wait for Park's permission.) By addressing her role as a lifetime activist prior to the civil rights movement, my goal would be to place greater emphasize on the work that these women did; work that was NECESSARY to the success of the Montgomery Boycott and the civil rights movement in general. Black women's work has gone unnoticed in mainstream anti-racist movements headed by men, and therefore contributing to Jo Ann Robinson's page with proof of her work would integrate black women's narratives into mainstream discourses of civil rights.