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Success “On The Way” Ask Dr. Jeanette ‘Brave and Courageous Women!’ Pharaoh and Herod: Villains Part 2
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Success “On The Way” Ask Dr. Jeanette ‘Brave and Courageous Women!’ Pharaoh and Herod: Villains Part 2

Dr. Jeanette ParkerApril 4, 2019

Shiphrah, Puah and Jochebed were most courageous and confident in their positions of rightness. They were fearless! Imagine having to confront the Pharaoh and disobey his command to kill the boy babies. Think about their response to him when he learned they were not killing the baby boys, explaining, ‘When they would get to the Hebrew women who were having the babies, the babies had already been born and “the women are “lively” and have already birthed the babies.” Jochebed, Moses mother his father saw Moses was a special child. Consider other fearless women: Harriet Tubman, an American abolitionist and political activist, born into slavery.

Focusing on Freedom with Harriet Tubman: Enduring Advice on Relentless Resistance
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Focusing on Freedom with Harriet Tubman: Enduring Advice on Relentless Resistance

Dr. Maulana KarengaMarch 28, 2019

This is in joyful and grateful homage to our illustrious foremother, Harriet Tubman, in this month of her transition and ascension, March 10, 1913. We offer sacred words and water to this leader and liberator, this all-seasons soldier, abolitionist, freedom fighter, strategist, teacher, nurse, advocate of human, civil and women’s rights, and this family woman: daughter of her parents and people, sister, wife, mother and aunt. At the heart, center and core of the life, work and struggle of Harriet Tubman is her focus on freedom. It is from the outset an inclusive and indivisible freedom: the collective practice of self-determination in and for community. Thus, it is not enough for her to free herself, for that to her was only an escape from the immediate bondage of the devilish enslaver and the radically evil system they built and maintained. And it was not enough to have crossed a line that in most minds meant leaving the land of bondage and entering the land of “freedom” and forgetting those left behind.

15 Past and Modern Day Female Activists of Our Time 
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15 Past and Modern Day Female Activists of Our Time 

Kimberlee Buck, Staff Writer March 1, 2018

Since the beginning of its inception, women have dedicated their lives to shaping and transforming America into the country we see today. This week, we kick-off the celebration of Women’s History Month by paying homage to a few women of color, who have rallied for change both locally and nationally. 

Aisha Hinds takes Hollywood by storm
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Aisha Hinds takes Hollywood by storm

Lapacazo Sandoval Contributing WriterApril 17, 2017

Aisha Hinds is ebullient, alive, gifted and woke. Those distinctive attributes set her apart in Hollywood where displaying intelligence and political awareness is not often witnessed and often frowned upon when it does make that rare appearance.

Child Watch: Recognizing All of America’s S/Heroes
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Child Watch: Recognizing All of America’s S/Heroes

Marian Wright Edelman (NNPA News Wire Columnist)April 28, 2016

Every day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role models: Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. As a child I read books about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. She and indomitable and eloquent slave woman Sojourner Truth represent countless thousands of anonymous slave women whose bodies and minds were abused and whose voices were muted by slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and confining gender roles throughout our nation’s history. Although Harriet Tubman could not read books, she could read the stars to find her way north to freedom. And she freed not only herself from slavery, but returned to slave country again and again through forests and streams and across mountains to lead other slaves to freedom at great personal danger. She was tough. She was determined. She was fearless. She was shrewd and she trusted God completely to deliver her, and other fleeing slaves, from pursuing captors who had placed a bounty on her life.