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Tag: black women

Nannie Burroughs, ca. 1900 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Suffragist Leader Nannie Helen Burroughs Lived Her Best Life

by Stacy M. BrownOctober 9, 2019December 21, 2021
Toni Morrison
Posted inColumnists, D Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Some Sisters May Be ‘Sheroes’ But They Have Miles to Go to Achieve Icon Status

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior EditorSeptember 18, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Julianne Malveaux

MALVEAUX: No More Mary Turners

by Dr. Julianne MalveauxJuly 26, 2019December 21, 2021
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and made over 70 documented rescues from Maryland, including her family. She became an abolitionist, civil war spy and suffragist. This mural called the Wall of Tubman depicts stages of her life as a slave to a free woman. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Trump Admin Delays Harriet Tubman $20 Bill

by WI Guest AuthorMay 24, 2019December 21, 2021
Courtesy photo
Posted inBlack Experience, National

West Point Academy Graduates Largest-Ever Number of Black Women

by WI Guest AuthorMay 13, 2019December 21, 2021
In celebration of Women’s History Month and the 192ndanniversary of the Black Press, Hazel Trice Edney presented the 2019 Stateswomen for Justice luncheon and panel discussion at the National Press Club in Northwest on Friday, March 29. Trice Edney with panelists (L-R): Kezia Williams - CEO of the Black upstart, Dr. Lezli Baskerville - president and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), Dr. E. Faye Williams - national chair, National Congress of Black Women, Hazel Trice Edney, Dr. Princess Asie Ocansey – Nekotech Center of Excellence, Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Janice Mathis, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, and Kim Sanders, president and CEO of the National Bankers Association. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

WILLIAMS: Grateful

by WI Guest AuthorApril 10, 2019October 31, 2020
**FILE** Supporters of women's rights gather in New York City's Union Square to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2019. (Gabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inBusiness, National

Fight for Equal Pay, Gender Parity Heats Up

by WI Guest AuthorApril 9, 2019October 31, 2020
University of Maryland School of Law graduate Juanita Jackson Mitchell in cap and gown with her sons Clarence M. Mitchell III, Keiffer Mitchell and Michael Bowen Mitchell at the university's College Park campus (Paul Henderson/Maryland Historical Society)
Posted inBlack History, Stacy M. Brown

Women’s History Month: Juanita Jackson Mitchell

by Stacy M. BrownMarch 20, 2019October 31, 2020
Fannie Lou Hamer after being beaten in jail, June 1963 (FBI photo)
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

Phenomenal Women: Fannie Lou Hamer

by WI WebstaffMarch 6, 2019October 31, 2020
Terri Broussard Williams
Posted inBlack Experience, National

Black History Month: Black Woman Remain the Backbone of the Struggle

by Stacy M. BrownJanuary 30, 2019October 31, 2020

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