Caribbean Archives - Page 7 of 10

Rosa Duarte

Dominican writer and activist

Ana Betancourt

Cuban women’s rights activist

Eugenia Charles

Dominica’s first female prime minister

Claudia Jones

Journalist born in Trinidad who dedicated her life to fighting racism inequality and injustice.

Joséphine de Beauharnais

First wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and first Empress of France.

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.

Loretta Ross is an academic and activist who has dedicated many years to advocating for women’s rights and reproductive justice. Most notably, she is a cofounder of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, served as a previous Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, and is one of twelve women credited with coining the phrase and framework “reproductive justice.”