Let the Light Enter
The Dying Words of Goethe “Light! more light! the shadows deepen, And my life is ebbing low, Throw the windows widely open: Light! more light! before I go.
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Carmen Yulin Cruz – Fire in the Storm
Puerto Rico’s fiery mayor first staked her claim on the national stage when she challenged the federal government’s abominable response to Hurricane Maria back in 2017.
Letitia James Taking the Law in Her Hands
NY Attorney General Letitia James is unafraid to take on power forces. She was in the news recently for releasing the damning evidence on sexual improprieties that forced Cuomo to resign.
Womanifesta
Because Black women have always sacrificed, dared, imagined and led us all towards a visionary and daring enactment of what freedom might become.
Vanguard: How Black Women Overcame Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Black women had to fiercely contend for space in the nation's public square from their arrival on these shores.
Not A Straw In The Way
Julia Nixon’s artful performance reveals Harper’s complex differences with white suffragists over the 15th Amendment.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Appointed in June 2019, she is the first Native American to serve in that position.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper deployed her artistry with words as a weapon to dismantle slavery.