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Wisconsin, in a first, to unveil a Black woman’s statue at its Capitol
And seated Rosa Parks was the first full-length statue of a Black person to be installed inside the U.S. Capitol, honoring the woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in ...
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Black ‘everywoman’ statue to appear on Trafalgar Square fourth plinth
Described as a “young, metropolitan woman of colour who could be just one of many Londoners today”, the statue depicts a black woman wearing a blue dress and high heels midway through a ...
Celebrate Harriet Tubman Day by embracing Black Women’s right to rest
Harriet Tubman put everything on the line to ensure others could live freely. Today, Black women are still leading, fighting, ...
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Sadie T.M. Alexander, first Black woman in the US to receive a PhD, to be honored with statue in Philadelphia
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a woman of many firsts, including being the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the first Black woman to earn a PhD ...
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This pioneering black woman journalist is finally getting the recognition she deserves
A statue of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first black woman to be an official White House correspondent, is being erected in Washington DC. Alice Allison Dunnigan, who died in 1983, was a ...
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Where to see the UK’s best statues of remarkable women from history
the situation is even direr for women of colour. England didn’t get its first public statue of a black woman (The Bronze Woman in Stockwell, south London) until 2008 – and that monument is a ...