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The History of Giving Circles in Black America

August 24, 2022

By Dannie Gore At the turn of the century, Midwestern urban Black women began taking a more active role in providing assistance to people in need. Impersonal corporate forms of philanthropy promoted by wealthy whites, such as the General Education Board or the Rosenwald Fund, did not connect directly to community needs. Black philanthropy […]

You’re More Than Enough

May 19, 2022

By Blake Ansari | Class of 2021 Sen. Cory Booker (D. – N.J.) words speak volumes about mothers and women in America My mother always greets me when I come from school, except this one day. She was sitting at her desk wiping tears and listening to Senator Cory Booker tell U.S. Supreme Court Justice […]

Ellen Garrison, Antislavery Activist and Educator

January 27, 2022

By Dan Gore In 1866, Ellen Garrison tested the nation’s first Civil Rights Act in court. Almost a century before Rosa Parks took her seat on an Alabama bus, Ellen sat in a segregated waiting room in a Baltimore train station an was “forcibly ejected.” Ellen felt it was her duty to test the new […]