Dolores Huerta was born in 1930 in New Mexico. Her parents divorced when she was very young. She was raised in Stockton, California by her mother and the active

Efia Nwangaza is a lifelong civil/human rights activist and freedom fighter who first worked for the liberation of African/Black people as a child in her

Elisabeth Omilami was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in a year that marked the first killing of a prominent civil rights leader. This spark ignited the American

Faya Ora Rose Toure is a woman of many gifts – playwright, songwriter, poet, activist, and institution builder. In fact, she is the visionary and founder of the

Dr. Gwendolyn was born in a small town outside Detroit, Michigan called Inkster. After the passing of her mother, at the age of 16, Gwen moved to Montgomery,

Jaribu HILL is the founder and executive director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. She is a human rights attorney and a veteran community

Jeanne GAUNA was a co-founder of the South West Organizing Project (SWOP), a prominent environmental, economic, and justice organization based in Albuquerque.

MARY was born in Detroit, Michigan, the second of Viola Liuzzo’s five children. Mary’s life and the lives of her siblings were dramatically changed in March of

MAWINA (SOWA) KOUYATE came out of the struggles for tenant rights, joined the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) in Boston, Massachusetts in 1973,

MILANI B. TRASK was a convener of Ka Lahui Hawaii, the Sovereign Hawaiian nation, and served two, four-year terms (1987-1998) as Kia Aina (Prime Minister). She led their work on the World Conference on Racism. Milani is an attorney and expert in international human rights law.

Njere was a Freedom Fighter, wife of Ras Mausi Alghanee for 36 years, mother of six, and grandmother of three. She grew up in the New Afrikan Independence Movement in Detroit, Michigan.

Constance Curry is a writer, activist, and a fellow at the Institute for Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She has a Juris Doctor degree from