Nurtured and mentored by Civil Rights giants, Melanie Campbell whipped those lessons with grit and courage to lead the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation.
Denise Rolark-Barnes acknowledges that print journalism was her first love but confesses to quietly stoking another passion that was less toil than running a weekly newspaper.
Sharon Farmer planned on orchestral performance as a career. But somewhere between high school bassoon practice and Ohio State University activism, she stumbled on photography.
No matter how low Trump’s approval ratings sink, Sayu Bhojwani stays focused on other measures, insisting it’s detrimental to conclude he’ll go down in wholesale voter rejection.
How would our nation look today if philanthropic powers had opened their coffers to the likes of Fannie Lou Hamer, Silvia Rivera, Yuri Kochiyama and Wilma Mankiller?
Puerto Rico’s fiery mayor first staked her claim on the national stage when she challenged the federal government’s abominable response to Hurricane Maria back in 2017.
Letitia James hit a trifecta as the first elected woman attorney general, the first Black woman elected to statewide office and the first person of color – male or woman – to hold the AG position.