Women in the United States did not have the legal right to vote — suffrage — until the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1920. The ability to cast a ballot took the better part of a century (1848 to 1920) and was the work of thousands. Black women were...
In 1994, when Calvin Rolark handed over the reins of The Washington Informer, Washington, D.C.’s African-American newspaper, to his daughter Denise, he created a legacy that would have meaning well beyond his immediate family. Denise joined the ranks of a select few...
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