Recently, I’ve started to feel older. Not old, necessarily, just older and more aware of the history I’ve seen in my life. I’ve started to realize that I’ve lived through events that people will ask […]
Category: Activists
Ida B. Wells: The Foul-Mouthed “Princess of the Press” who spoke out against the South’s horrific lynchings
Something I’ve noticed reading story after story about women throughout history is that so many accounts base the women they feature off of the actions of another woman. For instance, I’ve read about nearly ten […]
Ruth Coker Burks: the reason that I believe in angels
I’m going to start off by talking about something a little controversial: religion. As a young woman, I’m still trying to figure out what I believe. I have an immense amount of faith but in […]
THE FOLDING CHAIR 