#ChoosetoChallenge: It’s the Women’s Month in the King Community!
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Lilian Tintori
Lilian Tintori, wife of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, speaks during a meeting with foreign correspondents in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 29, 2017. The banner in the background reads "Freedom for all the political prisoners in Venezuela." Opposition activist Lilian Tintori knows firsthand that Venezuelans who speak out against their government take a risk.
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Hey you special woman @Nix66 @Marriam1 @wykoon @Greymane @Scooterpie @Miss_Dani @Nat09 @teresawallace44 @hechicerilla @siti_payung and if I missed you I'm sorry but you are all very impressive woman and I am glad to have met such a great strong group of ladies ❤💯💕🙃👇🥰
Sorry I'm late but I did post this 🙃👍💕
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«The hour of the woman who thinks, judges, rejects or accepts has come and the hour of the woman who attends, tied and impotent, to the capricious political elaboration of the destinies of her country has died, which is, ultimately, the destination of your home. " (Eva Perón-1947) ✌️
@CarlitaAlfonso One of the women who led the way to the Argentines
original language:
"Ha llegado la hora de la mujer que piensa, juzga, rechaza o acepta, y ha muerto la hora de la mujer que asiste, atada e impotente, a la caprichosa elaboración política de los destinos de su país, que es, en definitiva, el destino de su hogar." (Eva Perón-1947)
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Latoya Nugent, Nadeen Spence and Taitu Heron
Founded the Tambourine Army to fight gender-based violence. The co-founder of a new organization that campaigns against gender-based violence in Jamaica has been arrested after posting the names of alleged sexual predators on social media.
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Coretta Scott King speaking at the 1977 National Women’s Conference.
Women and other women of color have been historically marginalized in feminist movements in the United States. When Sojourner Truth delivered her famous “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech at a women’s rights conference in 1851, she was pointing out the irony and certainly the hypocrisy of a movement calling for the rights of women while trying to sidestep the issue of abolition—no doubt a crucial concern for black women in the United States.
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Mary Prince
Mary Prince (c. 1 October 1788 – after 1833) was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in Bermuda to an enslaved family of African descent. Subsequent to her escape, when she was living in London, England, she and Thomas Pringle wrote her slave narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831), which was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in the United Kingdom. This first-hand description of the brutalities of enslavement, released at a time when slavery was still legal in Bermuda and British Caribbean colonies, had a galvanizing effect on the anti-slavery movement. It was reprinted twice in its first year.
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Adelaide Hall (1901-1993)
Hall was an American born, London-based jazz singer with a career spanning several decades.Performing in cities worldwide including Harlem, Hollywood, Paris and London, she earned the title of Britain's highest paid female entertainer in 1941.
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Claudia Jones (1915 - 1964)
As well as being a journalist and political activist, Jones was the founder of the Notting Hill Carnival. In 1958, she launched the West Indian Gazette, a paper which campaigned for social equality. In the same year, she started the Caribbean carnival - in response to the race riots in Notting Hill. The event, which celebrated West Indian culture and heritage, was held at St Pancras Town Hall in January 1959.
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Yolanda Guzmán
Yolanda Guzmán was a vibrant young Afro-Dominican woman, a female combatant and a martyr of the April Revolution—the war fought against the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965. She was executed within a month of the start of the war at the incredibly young age of 21. Yolanda joins the rank of the many Black women who engaged in armed struggle for independence and sovereignty, many who like her, are often forgotten.
