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How Does Change Happen? – Women’s History Month – A Video Speech by Angela Davis
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International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023)
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Collective action and shared ownership for driving gender parity is what makes International Women’s Day impactful. Gloria Steinem, world-renowned feminist, journalist and activist reportedly once explained “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”…
Collective action and shared ownership for driving gender parity is what makes International Women's Day impactful. Gloria Steinem, world-renowned feminist, journalist and activist reportedly once explained…
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Black History Month – Malcolm X – God’s Judgment of White America (The Chickens Come Home to Roost) Speech – New York City, December 4, 1963
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The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the black revolution is controlled only by God.
Malcolm X Born: Malcolm Little, May 19, 1925, Omaha, Nebraska Died: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, February 21, 1965, Audubon Ballroom, Harlem, New York City Edited by Benjamin…
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Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning – Text of 1970 speech by Wampsutta An Aquinnah Wampanoag Elder
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This is a time of celebration for you - celebrating an anniversary of a beginning for the white man in America. A time of looking back, of reflection. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People.
When Frank James (1923 - February 20, 2001), known to the Wampanoag people as Wampsutta, was invited to speak by the Commonwealth of Massachusettsat the 1970…
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Quote to Ponder: Iroquois Prayer of Thanksgiving
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We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in Whom is embodied all goodness, and Who directs all things for the good of Her children.
Thanksgiving Prayer from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Nation
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