What is Nkenge Touré?
{{Article issues| {{cleanup|reason=|date=September 2023}} {{wikify|date=September 2023}} }} '''Nkenge Touré''' (born '''Anita Stroud''' on March 5, 1951) is a civil rights and political activist who is also a leader in the Anti-Racism, Reproductive Justice, and Black Women’s Health movements. She is also a former member of the [[Black Panther Party]]. Touré was the second black woman to work at the [[DC Rape Crisis Center]], and she served as Director and General Administrator of the center.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 4, 2004|title=Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: Touré, Nkenge|url=https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/Toure.pdf|website=Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College}}</ref> After working at the DC Rape Crisis Center for 13 years, Touré had an important role in anti-rape organizing and addressing all forms of violence toward women. Touré founded [[SisterSong]], a national activist organization focusing on reproductive justice for women of color.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Luna|first=Zakiya|title=Reproductive Rights as Human Rights |date=2020|chapter=Pulled to Human Rights: Engagement with Global Gatherings |pages=61–76 |chapter-url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/9781479894369-005/html|doi=10.18574/nyu/9781479894369.003.0007 |isbn=9781479894369 }}</ref> She founded/co-founded other organizations, such as the [[National Black United Front]] and the [[International Council of African Women]]. Touré’s activism shaped black-feminist movements across America, allowing black feminists to gather together at political organizing, social gatherings, and consciousness-raising sessions to assert themselves. They produced leaders who supported feminism, civil rights, gay rights, and AID activism throughout the 1970s – 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paper: Before Dawn: Black Feminist Political Organizing in the South, 1965–95 (134th Annual Meeting (January 3-6, 2020))|url=https://aha.confex.com/aha/2020/webprogram/Paper29062.html|access-date=2022-04-21|website=aha.confex.com}}</ref>