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3 days ago · “Kamala Harris is to the Democratic Party what Sojourner Truth was to women’s suffrage,” said Miller, the state’s only Black woman political fundraiser. “It is blatantly disrespectful and dishonest to the voting bloc whose vote and support have time and again brought back the party from life support to overlook Kamala Harris as president.
4 days ago · She noted Black women whose accomplishments could rival those of men, including Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Fanny Jackson Coppin, and Edmonia Lewis. Cooper advanced the view that it was the duty of educated and successful Black women to support their underprivileged peers in achieving their goals.
1 day ago · Faith obeys the word and removes discrimination. Faith is proven by our actions and our self-control. Faith is seen in wisdom, humility, and dependence on God. Faith will endure until the end. Faith is seen in our prayers for the hurting and the sick. Faith produces a love which enables us to confront a Brother or Sister in sin with grace and ...
2 days ago · This is a list of African-American activists covering various areas of activism, but primarily focus on those African Americans who historically and currently have been fighting racism and racial injustice against African Americans.
1 day ago · Library of Congress This sign was erected near the Sojourner Truth homes — a U.S. federal housing project in Detroit, Michigan — to protest the arrival of Black Americans in the area in 1942. It’s been argued that white Americans left cities because of the post-World War II economic boom.
3 days ago · When legislation limited their abilities, they resisted. Sojourner Truth testified in front of a grand jury to fight for the rights of her community. In the aftermath of slavery, ...
4 days ago · Black women have historically fought for ourselves, our families, our communities, and a country that has never loved us back. If you want to contribute to the conversation on these matters, begin with looking into the lives and work of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mary McLeod Bethune, Madam C. J. Walker, just to ...
