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Ida B. Wells

Journalist and Civil Rights Icon

Ida B. Wells, American investigative journalist, educator, and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, awarded Posthumous Pulitzer for ‘Outstanding and Courageous Reporting’. ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Award-winning Investigative Reporter

Nikole Hannah-Jones was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for The 1619 Project, The New York Times Magazine’s groundbreaking exploration of the legacy of Black Americans starting with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in 1619....

Matika Wilbur

Photographer, Creator of Project 562

Created by Matika Wilbur, Project 562 is a multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized tribes in The United States resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery and oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans. ...

Ann-Gel Palermo

Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion in Biomedical Education

Ann-Gel S. Palermo is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in Biomedical Education for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Chief Program Officer for the Office for Diversity and Inclusion of the Mount Sinai Health System. ...

Celebrate Women's Activism

Ida B. Wells

Journalist and Civil Rights Icon

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Award-winning Investigative Reporter

Matika Wilbur

Photographer, Creator of Project 562

Ann-Gel Palermo

Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion in Biomedical Education

3598 Stories Collected, 16,402 More By 2020

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Casandra Atlas

Maya Crawford

Yifat Susskind

Priya Prakash

Srabosti Tinni

Monali Thakur

Dj Sonica

Sai Pallabi

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