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Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones is a writer whose stories and literary imagination center on Georgia and its capital city.

Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.

Julia Pardoe

1800s UK author

bell hooks

As a leading Black intellectual, hooks pushed the feminist movement beyond the preserve of the white and middle-class, encouraging Black and working class perspectives on gender inequality.

Betty Churcher

Betty Churcher was the first female director of the National Gallery of Australia.

Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum

In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.

Lt. Col. Juanita Redmond Hipps

Juanita Redmond Hipps trained as a nurse at South Caroline State Hospital and joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was sent to Manila, in the Philippines soon after joining.

Tina McElroy Ansa

Novelist, journalist, essayist, and short-story writer

Lisa Bellear

Lisa Bellear’s work as an artist, poet, photographer, broadcaster, activist and academic continues to inspire change and educate.

Eliza Bennis

Irish-American methodist activist and diarist