Rebecca Pierce
Rebecca Pierce is a black and Jewish writer, editor, filmmaker and storyteller.
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Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman
Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman was the first slave to file, in 1781, and win her freedom in the state of Massachusetts.
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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.
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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”.
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Martha Wright-Reed was a prison phone justice advocate who in 2000 sued to get phone rates for prisoners reduced.
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Sheila Johnson first and only black woman to have stake in three pro sports teams: the Wizards (NBA), Capitals (NHL), and Mystics (WNBA).
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Callie House was a former slave who campaigned for reparations.
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Dorothy Height was a civil rights activist and president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years.
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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.
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Mary Browser was a former slave and a Union spy during the Civil War.
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