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Win or lose , we win by raising the issues ”
A crusading columnist and publisher of The California Eagle , a weekly newspaper that she published in Los Angeles from 1912 to 1951 , Bass deserves her place in the pantheon of badass Black women in journalism and politics .
During much of her time at its helm , The Eagle was the largest circulated Black-owned newspaper in the West . A defining characteristic of Bass ’ leadership style was that she had no problem mixing and matching her journalism , her politics , and her activism .
If the agenda accrued to the benefit of Black people , she was down for the cause .
But Bass didn ’ t let her advocacy for Black issues become a blinder .
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