Category: Activist

Pura Fé

Pura Fé  MUSICIAN/SINGER/COMPOSER/ACTIVIST  Pura Fé, whose name means “Pure Faith,” was born in New York City and an heir to the Tuscarora Indian Nation. She is an artist, an activist, and much more.    by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS  ~Singer, songwriter, musician, poet, artist, dancer, actor, teacher, and activist.~ This “Renaissance woman” is the founding member …

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The Scottsboro Boys

  The Scottsboro Boys  The nine African American teenagers were falsely accused of raping two White women in (1931) Alabama.   by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS     A  landmark case of racial injustice The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers falsely accused of raping two White women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in …

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Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer, and almanac author by Dale Ricardo Shields “The color of the skin is in no way connected with the strength of the mind or intellectual powers.” A self-taught mathematician and astronomer, Benjamin Banneker was probably the most accomplished African American of America’s colonial period. Born: November 9, 1731, Baltimore …

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Thurgood Marshall: Revolutionizing the Concept of Precedence in the Supreme Court

                                                    Thurgood                                                           Marshall  …

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DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD

MIRIAM (Duchess) HARRIS   by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS  “I wouldn’t trade nothing for my journey now.“   Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She joined the faculty in 1998 and has expertise in 20th-century political history, feminist theory, and race and the law. “Special Assistant to the Provost for …

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