By: TAKIM WILLIAMS The experience of a trafficking victim is largely unaffected by statements written in their government's database. Likewise,...
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#InContext: W.E.B. Du Bois
By: MOLLY WICKER Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, but his life and legacy...
#InContext: Mary Wollstonecraft
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Mary Wollstonecraft provocatively compared the women of 18th Century England to slaves in her groundbreaking feminist classic, A...
#InContext: St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi abandoned a life of luxury in exchange for a life devoted to Christianity after reportedly hearing the voice of God, who...
#InContext: Mother Teresa
For decades, Mother Teresa’s kindness and generosity has captured the attention of the world. She was showered with honorary degrees and awards...
#InContext: Rosa Parks
By: SARAH CRAMER Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. At a young age, Parks’ parents separated. She and her mother moved...
#InContext: Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet and has spent his lifetime advocating for the freedom of Tibet....
#InContext: Jessie E. Sampter
Jessie Ethel Sampter was born on March 22, 1883, in New York City to Rudolph and Virginia (Kohlberg) Sampter, prosperous second-generation German...
#InContext: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
By: KELLI L. ROSS Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu, a Nobel Peace Laureate, rose to worldwide fame in the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid in...
#InContext: Eugene Cho
By: SUTTON ROACH Eugene Cho, founder of One Day’s Wages and senior pastor at Quest Church in Seattle, was born in South Korea and immigrated to the...
#InContext: Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin invented the theory of evolution by natural selection. How was it that a man born into a Christian family and trained as a clergyman...
#InContext: Apostle Paul
In ancient Rome, slavery was common, and running away from your owner was punishable by death. A man named Onesimus did just that in the first...