by Simone Rixey | Feb 15, 2018 | Culture
Ursula Burns is an American business educative, currently serving the chairwoman of VEOM. Burns is also senior advisor to Teneo, and a board member of American Express Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Uber and many more. Burns became the first African American...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 13, 2018 | Culture
Coretta Scott King was a civil rights pioneer, author and wife to Martin Luther King Jr. Scott King was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Movement as an advisor to our nation’s leaders and an advocate for her late husband’s causes. A little...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture
Mary McLeod Bethune was an educator, civil rights activist, served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women and founded the National Council of Negro Women. A child of former slaves, McLeod Bethune graduated from the Scotia Seminary for Girls in...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 11, 2018 | Culture
Ava DuVernay is an American film producer, screenwriter, film marketer, film distributor and award winning film director. DuVernay is the first African America female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the first African American female director to...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 10, 2018 | Culture
Daisy Bates was an American Civil rights activist who led the Little Rock Inegration Crisis, after African American students were prevented from entering racially segregated schools. Bates grew up in Arkansas and was a member of the Little Rock NAACP. After Brown V....
