One of the first Black women to receive a college degree, Mary Church Terrell advocated for women's suffrage and racial equality long before either cause was popular.The abolitionist movement and the struggle for women’s suffrage grew together in 19th-century America. Many abolitionists were also suffragists, but even within the movement for women’s rights, there was bigotry and racism. At the 1913 women’s march on Washington, for instance, some suffragists quietly asked that women of color march in the back — or hold their own march altogether. Read More...
Miriam Rodríguez spent years tracking down her daughter's killers, one by one, until she was murdered on Mother's Day in 2017.San Fernando Missing Persons Activists CollectiveMiriam Rodríguez dedicated her life to seeking justice for her daughter, Karen.
Until the end of her life, one thing consumed Miriam Rodríguez: justice. Her 20-year-old daughter, Karen, had been abducted and killed by Mexican cartel members in 2014, and Rodríguez became determined to hunt down every one of her daughter’s kidnappers. Read More...
In conducting research for her new book, professor Alexis Peri came across some disturbing new information about the siege of Leningrad.Wikimedia CommonsThe diary of Tanya Savicheva, a girl of 11, her notes about starvation and deaths of her sister, then grandmother, then brother, then uncle, then another uncle, then mother. The last three notes say “Savichevs died”, “Everyone died” and “Only Tanya is left.” She died of progressive dystrophy shortly after the siege. Read More...
