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Tag: Black women in history

close up photo of a person clenching his fist
Posted inOp-Ed

MORIAL: Celebrate the Women Who Shape the Racial Justice Movement

by Marc H. Morial May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

It’s always a blessing when my duties as president and CEO of the National Urban League take me to my hometown of New Orleans, as happened last week with a milestone celebration of one of our economic empowerment initiatives, and a professional development conference for our hard-working affiliate CEOS.

Maya Angelou
Posted inLifestyle

Maya Angelou Becomes First Black Woman on U.S. Quarter

by Stacy M. Brown January 11, 2022January 11, 2022
Keechant Sewell speaks during a press conference at the Queensbridge Houses in the Queens borough of New York on Dec. 15, 2021, to announce that Mayor-elect Eric Adams (right) has named Sewell as the city's next police commissioner. (Screen shot from video courtesy of WABC-TV)
Posted inNational

Keechant Sewell Named First Woman to Lead NYPD

by Stacy M. Brown December 15, 2021December 15, 2021
Posted inBlack History

Congress Pushes to Honor All-Black Female WWII Battalion

by Stacy M. Brown July 28, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

Senate Confirms Chiquita Brooks-LaSure as First Black Woman to Lead CMS

by Stacy M. Brown May 27, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inNational

Karine Jean-Pierre Becomes 1st Black Woman in Three Decades to Host White House Briefing

by Stacy M. Brown May 26, 2021December 21, 2021
Dorothy Height (Adrian Wood via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inOpinion

MALVEAUX: Black Women’s Organizations Matter

by WI Guest Author March 3, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience

Anna Julia Cooper: Advocate for Adult Education and Black Women’s Rights

by Sam P.K. Collins February 10, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History

New Statue in Manassas Highlights an Unsung Legacy


by WI Guest Author October 26, 2020December 21, 2021
An 1864 photo of Sojourner Truth
Posted inStacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

One Hundred Years after Suffrage Victories, Black Women Still Carrying the Torch

by Stacy M. Brown October 7, 2020December 21, 2021

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