Black History Month
This month and every month, we celebrate the contributions Black advocates have made to our mission, agriculture, and those who create safe spaces for positive change.
This post is inspired by “Giants Among Men and Women On Whose Shoulders We Stand” from Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community and Black Soil KY‘s Black History Month Resource Guide. Click on each card to learn more.
Umi Hankins
Activist and cofounder of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community.
Ulester Douglas
Psychotherapist, consultant, keynote speaker, and social justice advocate.
Kimberlé Crenshaw
American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.
The Combahee River Collective
“As Black feminists and Lesbians we know that we have a very definite revolutionary task to perform.”
Dr. Beth Ritchie
Researcher and author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women and more titles.
Devine Carama
Socially conscious hip hop artist, activist, motivational speaker, and director of One Lexington.
Booker T. Whatley
Tuskegee University professor who first introduced the concept of a CSA.
Farmers' Improvement Society
FIS worked to help poor farmers escape the cycle of debt caused by the share cropping and credit system
Fannie Lou Hamer
Civil and voting rights activist and founder of the Freedom Farm Cooperative.
