Single mother Archives - Page 3 of 25

Hong Vo

Hong Vo has made a significant contribution for Vietnamese women and disadvantaged individuals and groups in Victoria, Australia, providing resources and support.

Grace Thorpe

Native American rights activist and environmentalist

Nikki Giovanni

Author of more than a dozen poetry collections, including “Black Feeling, Black Talk,” “Blues: For All the Changes” and “Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose”

Silkwood was a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuels production plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, and a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union. She was also an activist who was critical of plant safety and her suspicious death remains unsolved.

Ellamae Ellis League

Ellamae Ellis League practiced as an architect in Georgia for more than fifty years, from 1922 until she retired in 1975.

Thoko Ntshinga

For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.

Ericka Huggins

Black Panther, university lecturer and poet

Carrie Steele Logan

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.