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Do you know who Eunice Hunton Carter is? Read about her groundbreaking career in this fascinating book written by her grandson, Yale Law School professor and author Stephen L Carter. INVISIBLE The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster By Stephen L. CarterIllustrated. 364 pp. Henry Holt & […]
Katie Cannon Lifted Black Women’s Perspective in Theology The Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon, the first black woman to be ordained in a leading branch of Presbyterianism and a groundbreaking scholar who helped elevate the perspective of black women in church and academic thought, died on August 8, 2018, in Richmond, Va. Dr. Cannon was a […]
African-American women were written out of the history of the woman suffrage movement. As the centennial of the 19th Amendment approaches, it’s time for a new look at the past. By Brent Staples Americans are being forced to choose between a cherished lie and a disconcerting truth as they prepare to celebrate the centennial of the […]
The Christian Activities Council has worked for many years on issues confronting the City of Hartford. Most recently, they have won some victories in getting the City and HUD to hold absentee landlords accountable. Now, they are building a new organization for Faith-Based Community Organizing. AJ Johnson, left, and Cori Mackey, executive director, are organizers […]
When millions of African-Americans fled the South in search of a better life, they remade the nation in ways that are still being felt By Isabel Wilkerson SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By (1963), millions of African-Americans had already testified with their bodies to the repression they had endured in the Jim Crow South by defecting to the North and […]
Elizabeth Keckly, Dressmaker and Confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley ( February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil rights activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after […]
When You Are Lost, Thank Gladys West for Your GPS byCathy Dyson, The (Fredericksburg, Va.) Free Lance-Star /AP via militarytimes.com Gladys West was putting together a short bio about herself for a sorority function that recognized senior members of the group. She noted her 42-year career at the Navy base at Dahlgren and devoted one short-and-sweet line to the fact she […]
By Alexis Clark They were called “brown babies,” or “mischlingskinder,” a derogatory German term for mixed-race children. And sometimes they were just referred to as mutts. Born during the occupation years in Germany after World War II, the offspring of German women and African-American soldiers, their fathers were usually transferred elsewhere and their mothers risked social […]
News Coverage and Reflections of the Alabama trip: In early January, a delegation of 37 Christians and Jews from Hartford traveled together to Alabama to retrace the steps of civil rights leaders. The trip, which has grown from members of Faith Congregational Church and its sister congregation, Immanuel Congregational Church, was co-sponsored by and included […]
Sending a mother to prison can have a devastating effect on her children. Why, then, do we lock so many women up? By Sarah Stillman writing in Newyorker.com Photo by Zoraida Lopez She writes, “America imprisons women in astonishing numbers. The population of women in state prisons has increased by more than eight hundred percent in […]
By Gillian Friedman | February 5, 2019 at 4:08 pm MST A Utah Orthodox rabbi said his childhood nanny sexually abused him for 10 years. Here’s why he decided to tell his story for the first time SALT LAKE CITY — From behind the witness stand, Utah Rabbi Avrohom (“Avremi”) Zippel gazes out into the sea of faces and prepares […]
Opioid Overdoses Kill More Americans Than Car Crashes According to the Emergency Email and Wireless Network, U.S life expectancy has been dropping year-on-year since 2015. However, it’s not due to the prevalence of a number of illnesses. It isn’t even because of the amount of car deaths on American roads. Rather, it’s down to the increasing number […]
According to the Emergency Email and Wireless Network, United States millennials ages 24 to 49 who are overweight are discovering that they are forming more cancers than in previous years, according to a recent study done by the Center for Disease Control. Obese individuals experience a wide variety of types of cancers which may be related […]
courtesy of: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2016/02/black-history-month-slavery-and-forced-migration-in-the-deep-south/ The theme for Black History Month in 2019 is “Black Migrations” tracking the continuous movement of blacks from the American South to the industrialized North and beyond. Beginning in the early 20th century, a growing number of black industrial leaders and black entrepreneurs emerged as families relocated from farms to cities, and from the South […]