Sojourner Truth Biography (1797–1883)
Abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth is best known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" delivered at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
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Posted Thursday, March 17th 2022 at 1:00PM
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary Biography (1823–1893)
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an active abolitionist and the first female African American newspaper editor in North America.
Who Was Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
Abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd Cary became the first ...
Posted Thursday, March 17th 2022 at 12:50PM
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Amelia Boynton Biography (1911–2015)
Amelia Boynton Robinson was a civil rights pioneer who championed voting rights for African Americans. She was brutally beaten for helping to lead a 1965 civil rights march, which became known as Bloody Sunday. ...
Posted Thursday, March 17th 2022 at 12:41PM
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Posted Thursday, March 17th 2022 at 11:39AM
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Killer Kudzu is a pre-apocalyptic, semi-horror novel where science has gone terribly wrong.
It is written with a social twist and a commentary about the relationship between blacks and whites in the south.
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Posted Tuesday, March 15th 2022 at 8:54PM
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Mary Mahoney Biography (1845–1926)
Mary Mahoney became the first Black woman to complete nurse's training in 1879.
Who Was Mary Mahoney?
Mary Mahoney was admitted to the nursing school of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, and be ...
Posted Tuesday, March 15th 2022 at 2:15PM
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Mary McLeod Bethune Biography (1875–1955)
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator and activist, serving as president of the National Association of Colored Women and founding the National Council of Negro Women.
Who Was Mary McLeod Bethune?
Mary McL ...
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Septima Poinsette Clark
Biography Civil Rights Activist (1898–1987)
Septima Poinsette Clark was a teacher and civil rights activist whose citizenship schools helped enfranchise and empower African Americans.
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Born on May 3, 1898, i ...
Posted Tuesday, March 15th 2022 at 1:59PM
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Posted Tuesday, March 15th 2022 at 11:58AM
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March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (#DDAwareness2022). The theme this year is “Worlds Imagined.”
The Council imagines a world where people with developmental disabilities live the lives they ...
Posted Monday, March 14th 2022 at 7:55PM
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Bree Newsome Biography (1985–)
Bree Newsome is an artist and Black activist who entered the national spotlight when she climbed a flagpole at the South Carolina Capitol grounds to remove a Confederate battle flag in 2015.
Who Is Bree Newsome?
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Posted Sunday, March 13th 2022 at 9:24PM
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Ilhan Omar Biography (1982–)
Democratic politician Ilhan Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee and became one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
Who Is Ilhan Omar?
Ilhan Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child and s ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2022 at 9:14PM
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Coco Gauff Biography (2004–)
American Coco Gauff is a professional tennis player who rose to prominence with a win over Venus Williams at Wimbledon when she was just 15.
Who Is Coco Gauff?
Cori "Coco" Gauff is a professional tennis player. A ...
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The mysterious sound in a new sub-division–low sound blares out ...
Posted Sunday, March 13th 2022 at 3:44PM
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Ayanna Pressley Biography (1974–)
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is the first woman of color to be elected to Congress from Massachusetts. She is a member of "The Squad."
Who Is Ayanna Pressley?
A Chicago native, Ayanna Pressley moved to Bost ...
Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 8:37PM
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Stacey Abrams Biography (1973–)
Stacey Abrams is a politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2006-2017, and ran for the governor of the state in 2018. She is also the founder of Fair Fight.
Who Is Stacey Abrams?
Poli ...
Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 8:30PM
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Amanda Gorman Biography (1998–)
American poet and activist Amanda Gorman reached a worldwide audience when she read her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2021.
Who Is Amanda Gorman?
Amanda Gorman was name ...
Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 8:17PM
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Ella Baker Biography (1903–1986)
Civil rights leader Ella Baker helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Who Was Ella Baker?
Ella Baker became one of the leading figures of ...
Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 3:04PM
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Mary Jackson Biography (1921–2005)
Mathematician Mary Jackson was one of a small group of African American women who worked as aeronautical engineers, called "human computers," at NASA during the Space Age.
Who Was Mary Jackson?
Mathematicia ...
Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 2:41PM
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Alice Ball Biography (1892–1916)
Alice Ball was an African American chemist who developed the first successful treatment for those suffering from Hansen’s disease (leprosy).
Who Was Alice Ball?
Alice Ball was an African American chemist who ...
Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 2:29PM
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TUNE-IN: “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” the six-episode limited series, will debut globally Friday, March 11 on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.
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Posted Saturday, March 12th 2022 at 1:50AM
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Ida B. Wells Biography (1862–1931)
Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.
Who Was Ida B. Wells?
Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist, abolit ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2022 at 8:21PM
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Award-winning writer Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks and Recreation), set in a technologically advanced future where hologram phones, 3D food printers and automated grocery stores are the norm. Most uniquely, humans can choose to be “uploaded” into a ...
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