Category: BWAD

Brittany Martin is a community leader, mama, sister, organizer, activist, and revolutionary.

An engaged and respected Long Beach elder, Miss Evelyn Knight has led a life of engagement in civil and equal rights activism.

Nothing short of divine, Rep. Ilhan Omar is an inspiring and remarkable woman who fully embraces and embodies the struggle of our spirit and resilience. Her journey to becoming the brave, beautiful, and intelligent lioness she is began in Somalia.

Georgia Fort is an accomplished journalist and a source of inspiration for many. With her two Emmy nominations and her powerful approach to storytelling, she has proven herself as one of the most influential voices in journalism today.

ollie Bell is straight outta Compton. She is a community legend who has marched for and documented (through her photography) a vast amount of Southern California’s struggle for Black liberation.

Today we honor Zaynab Mohamed, her remarkable achievements, and invaluable contributions to her community. Her story is a testament to the strength and resilience of Black immigrants and the power of community organizing.

Helen Butler is a force! A voting rights activist and model for Black women’s empowerment, Ms. Butler is Executive Director of the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda. She also serves as the Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable of Georgia. promoting health and wellness, economic security, education and global empowerment of Black women. Ms. Butler is widely credited for helping to turn the political tide in Georgia by mobilizing hundreds-of-thousands of Black folks to vote and by guarding against voter intimidation.

Janie Crawford…or Zora Neale Hurston, for that matter. Born in rural Georgia in 1944, long before she earned acclaim for The Color Purple, Alice Walker was a lover of Black women…her mother, who planted daffodils and toiled in the red earth as a sharecropper, her grandmother who saved Alice from chores and nurtured her writing, Ms. Hurston – who had been buried in an unmarked grave in Eatonville, Florida…her work fading into obscurity, Mississippi women with thick arms and gold teeth whose hearts held righteous and valiant war stories against white-supremacy.

Deeply inspired by the work of courageous Black women journalists before her, especially Ida B. Wells, Nikole Hannah Jones has committed her work and life to truth-telling. She founded the Ida B. Wells Society and reports on racial Injustice for the New York Times Magazine.