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14 Black women who proved they were the real architects of the Civil Rights Movement
As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...
10 Black Leaders Who Take Your Civil Rights Seriously
As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...
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New Book Tells the Story of the Most Influential Black Woman You’ve Never Heard Of
Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, an associate professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations, explores this ...
The Strategist Behind the Viral #WinWithBlackWomen Movement
The weekly Sunday video conference quickly ballooned from its usual several hundred attendees to more than 90,000, and the ...
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Memory Crafters Preserve Black Women’s History
The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...
Owensboro AAUW Presents “I Got a Right to the Tree of Life: Women’s Suffrage and African American Women’s Voices”
The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...
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What We Can All Learn From Black Women in Education
When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...
Human Rights Group Slams Mississippi For Failing To Prevent Black Women’s Cervical Cancer Deaths
Human rights activists determined Mississippi and the federal government failed to prevent Black women from dying of cervical ...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Speaks For Black Women Everywhere: Trump’s Administration Is A Victory For Corruption’
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett is speaking out against President Donald Trump’s policies without mincing words and using ...