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#InContext: Bell Hooks
Born on September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and raised in a racially segregated South, Bell Hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins) grew...
#InContext: Barbara Jordan
Born in Texas during 1936, Barbara Jordan, the first black congresswoman from the South, grew up during the Jim Crow Era. Barbara was known...
#InContext Malcolm X
Malcolm X (1925 – 1965) embodied the true meaning of resilience, leadership, and transformation. At a time when African Americans experienced racial...
#InContext: Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, to Mississippi sharecroppers. She was the youngest of 20 children. At the young age of six, she...
#InContext: Eleanor Roosevelt
From 1933 to 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt served as the First Lady of the United States alongside her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt....
National Farm Workers Day: Mitigating Forced Labor in Farmwork
Rafael* was mostly excited to be on the plane headed back to the United States from the Dominican Republic. He had spent the off-season with his...
Celebrating Women Fighting Trafficking for International Women’s Day 2022
This International Women’s Day, our team wanted to take time to celebrate a few of the women who lead the anti-human trafficking movement. Our staff...
Knowing what to look for: global vulnerabilities to human trafficking
No anti-trafficking response is complete if it does not take into account the many reasons someone may be vulnerable to human trafficking. We know...
Breaking Down Global Estimates of Human Trafficking: Human Trafficking Awareness Month 2022
There are many estimates of trafficking prevalence cited by various sources, so it can be difficult to know what trafficking looks like around the...
Breaking Down Global Estimates of Human Trafficking: Human Trafficking Awareness Month 2022
There are many estimates of trafficking prevalence cited by various sources, so it can be difficult to know what trafficking looks like around the...
#InContext: Pope Francis
“Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”– Pope Francis Before Pope...