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Hace 2 días · The statue, sculpted by artist and Akron native Woodrow Nash, depicts Truth standing tall and clutching a book. The monument is built on top of an impala lily, the national flower of Ghana, from ...
Hace 1 día · The precise words of the former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the 1851 Ohio Women’s Rights Convention have been lost to history. However, ...
Hace 4 días · June 4, 2024. Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city on Wednesday to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the very spot where the women’s rights pioneer gave an iconic 1851 speech now known as “Ain’t I a Woman?”. Truth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist ...
Hace 4 días · Jayna Brown's Black Utopia: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds is a fascinating study that moves through a series of well-chosen juxtapositions to create a loose genealogy of Black utopian thought, one that ranges from such Black women preachers of the nineteenth century as Sojourner Truth and extends forward to contemporary speculative writers, like Octavia Butler and Samuel R ...
Hace 3 días · SOJOURNER TRUTH LEGACY PLAZA: “It’s going to remind others to be the first one to speak up, to speak up for all, not just for some.” PHOTO COURTESY OF CLEVELAND.COM Akron, Ohio (AP ...
Hace 9 horas · On June 9 in Bombyx, the highly-accomplished and multi-hyphenated Nell Irvin Painter will be speaking about her latest collection of essays and her ongoing work on the life of Sojourner Truth. She tells us about why she chose to study this local historical figure and the importance of embracing Truth’s complexity beyond popular portrayals of her.
Historian and Sojourner Truth biographer Nell Irvin Painter will be in Florence June 9 to talk ...
