Jul 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: The US Navy’s first Black female fighter pilot has earned her wings, the service said. The Chief of Naval Air Training celebrated the officer for her achievement on Twitter, writing: “BZ to Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle on completing the Tactical...
Jul 16, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: The first African–American Congresswoman, Shirley Anita Chisholm represented a newly reapportioned U.S. House district centered in Brooklyn, New York. Elected in 1968 because of her roots in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood, Chisholm was catapulted into...
Jun 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Human Rights
Search for: Sophia Dawson is a Brooklyn based visual artist who has dedicated her life’s work to exposing the stories and experiences of individuals who are striving to overcome the injustices they face. This isn’t Brooklyn Artist Sophia Dawson’s first...
Apr 14, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: New Battle for Those on Coronavirus Front Lines: Child Custody Doctors, firefighters and others who risk exposure to Covid-19 are being taken to court by ex-spouses who want to keep them away from their children. Last month, Dr. Bertha Mayorquin, a New...
Apr 14, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: This Nurse is Fighting Coronavirus in Sierra Leone Rosaline, 29, is a nurse in Sierra Leone. CARE is a partner of the Kakoya health facility in Koinadugu district where she works. She was a volunteer community health worker with CARE when she was younger....
Mar 13, 2020 | Girls We Love
Search for: Out of the Shadows ON A BEAUTIFUL April day in 2002, a woman named Ai-jen Poo walked into the River Run Playground on New York’s Upper West Side, where a cluster of Caribbean women had gathered, tending to children who were not their own. Kids ran...
