Ida B. Wells
You may know that Rosa Parks was far from the first black person in the United States to refuse ro vacate a bus seat for a white person. But did you know that 71 years before Rosa Parks, there was a...
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Meet Osh-Tisch, whose name translates to “Finds Them and Kills Them” in Crow. Osh-Tisch was an assigned-male-at-birth woman and was one of the last of the Crow Nation baté (Two Spirit spiritual leaders...
View ArticleNaziq al-Abid
Naziq al-Abid had one of the best resumes ever: spoke five languages, started the Syrian Red Crescent (and half a dozen other organizations), first female general in Syrian history, and possibly held...
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Cornelia Sorabji
12 345 678 9101112 1314 1516 171819 20 2122 232425 2627 28293031 32 It doesn’t seem like it’s something that even needs to be explained, but such are the times we live in: colonialism was bad. The...
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Luisa Capetillo
1 234 567 891011 12 1314 1516 17 181920 212223 24 That’s a direct quote, as given by the main book on her (by Norma Valle-Ferrer, alluded to later in this post). This arrest was made while she was in...
View ArticleSojourner Truth
When her kid was stolen from her, this ex-slave successfully sued to get him back; she then went on to become a forceful speaker for abolition across the United States.
View ArticleMekatilili wa Menza
The year is 1913. The place is Kenya. The British are behaving badly. What did they do now, you ask? Whip out your “colonial hooliganism” bingo cards: Levied enforced labor on the locals (after...
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Stephanie St. Clair
Oh man, y’all are in for a treat this week. Presenting the tale of Prohibition-era gangster Stephanie St. Clair. She ran Harlem’s numbers rackets, fought the mob and won, and repeatedly dissed them in...
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The Mirabal Sisters
The Dominican Republic of the 1950s was a totalitarian nightmare. Obsessively controlled by cruel dictator Rafael Trujillo — a man for whom no slight was too small, no grudge too big — the nation’s...
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Soraya Tarzi
1 23 4 5 678 9 10 11 121314 1516 1718192021 222324 252627 2829 303132 333435 36 3738 39 Amanullah wasn’t actually king until 1926 – he was Amir before then. For simplicity’s sake, referring to him...
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