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Black History Month

This month and every month, we celebrate the contributions Black persons 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.  

Shelia 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.

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