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#InContext: Bell Hooks

#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 Malcolm X

#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

#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: Pope Francis

#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...

#InContext: Yaa Gyasi

#InContext: Yaa Gyasi

“[W]hen you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you...

#InContext: Nelson Mandela

#InContext: Nelson Mandela

“Pulling the branch of a tree” — this is the literal English translation of Nelson Mandela’s Xhosa birth name, Rolihlahla. While Mandela proclaimed...

#InContext: Gary Haugen

#InContext: Gary Haugen

Reflecting on history, what is most perplexing and indefensible are “the simple failures of compassion.” In these failures, we watch societies...