Rebecca Pierce
Rebecca Pierce is a black and Jewish writer, editor, filmmaker and storyteller.
Read more "Rebecca Pierce"Rebecca Pierce is a black and Jewish writer, editor, filmmaker and storyteller.
Read more "Rebecca Pierce"Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman was the first slave to file, in 1781, and win her freedom in the state of Massachusetts.
Read more "Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman"Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail 3 days after her arrest following a traffic stop. Protests followed with #SandraBland and SayHerName. Her mother later won a wrongful death lawsuit.
Read more "Sandra Bland"Atima Lui is founder and CEO of Nudest whose “mission is to redefine the standard of beauty worldwide to match the full range of diversity in everyone’s skin”.
Read more "Atima Lui"Martha Wright-Reed was a prison phone justice advocate who in 2000 sued to get phone rates for prisoners reduced.
Read more "Martha Wright-Reed"Sheila Johnson first and only black woman to have stake in three pro sports teams: the Wizards (NBA), Capitals (NHL), and Mystics (WNBA).
Read more "Sheila Johnson"Callie House was a former slave who campaigned for reparations.
Read more "Callie House"Dorothy Height was a civil rights activist and president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.
Read more "Dorothy Height"Marvel Jackson Cooke in 1928 became the first woman reporter for the New York Amsterdam News and in 1950 became the first black woman to work for a mainstream white-owned newspaper.
Read more "Marvel Jackson Cooke"Mary Browser was a former slave and a Union spy during the Civil War.
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