10 black women you should know
Every social movement in history has involved great women striving so that justice and equality may be achieved. Here are 10 black women who are leading the struggle for change on many of the issues affecting our community today.
Every social movement in history has involved great women striving so that justice and equality may be achieved. Here are 10 black women who are leading the struggle for change on many of the issues affecting our community today.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins took over as CEO of Green for All in March when Van Jones left the position to work for the Obama administration. Green for All is the nation's leading organization working to bring environmental justice to communities of color. So far under her tenure, Ellis-Lamkins has lobbied for two significant improvements to the House version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act: securing funding for job training, and guaranteeing broad access to clean energy jobs. (Photo © 2009 Green for All)
Margaret Prescod founded the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Killers in the mid-1980s after dozens of women were found dead in alleyways, parks and dumpsters in Los Angeles. The police believed the killings were the work of one man, dubbed the Southside Slayer at the time. The Coalition became inactive in the early 1990s, but Prescod restarted it in August 2008, when news broke that the "Grim Sleeper" had struck again.
LaDonna Redmond is a food security activist working on Chicago's west side. She is the President and CEO of The Institute for Community Resource Development (ICRD). Redmond recently opened Graffiti and Grub, a grocery store and venue focusing on supplying the community with sustainable, organic, and locally-grown food.
