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Back to homeLinda Brown, Who Was At Center Of Brown v. Board Of Education, Dies
“…it began with Brown’s father Oliver, who tried to enroll her at the Sumner School, an all-white elementary school in Topeka just a few blocks from the Browns’ home.”
Why Wikipedia Often Overlooks Stories of Women in History
Wikipedia’s dependence on volunteer editors has resulted in several systemic issues, but it also offers an opportunity for self-correction.
Before there was ‘Intersectional Feminism,’ there was the Combahee River Collective
“One thing that hasn’t changed, she says, is the need for black women to assert their own brand of feminism, much as she and a group of women did in 1974, when they formed the Combahee River Collective.”