Nkenge Touré
Nkenge Touré is an activist whose expansive collection of speeches and written works confront issues around reproductive justice, Black feminism, and women’s rights.
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Etta Horn
Etta Horn was a prominent welfare rights advocate. As an activist, she worked alongside other anti-poverty organizers to improve the living conditions of low-income DC residents. Though she had many successes, Horn is widely celebrated for her work with the Citywide Welfare Alliance.
Mary Treadwell
Mary Treadwell was a notable DC-based activist and community organizer. Treadwell is most noted for co-creating Youth Pride, Inc., a job-training program that assisted inner-city youth. She also advocated for the decriminalization of abortion, particularly as part of her work advocating for bodily autonomy as a form of Black liberation.
Dr Millicent Brown
American educator, historian, and civil rights activist best known for her role in desegregating public schools in Charleston, South Carolina.
Clara Byrd Baker
American educator and community leader
Izora Armstead
American singer best known as one half of the duo Two Tons O’ Fun, which later became The Weather Girls.
Amanimalel
7th century BCE queen of Napata, a kingdom of Kush.
Amanishakheto
Kandake (queen) of the kingdom of Kush in ancient Nubia.
Amanitore
Meroe kandake (queen) in ancient Nubia
Shirley Graham Du Bois
African-American writer, composer, educator, and civil rights activist