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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. She challenged many contemporary notions by taking on familiar biblical stories but retelling them through the female experience, and was met with contempt and even violence.

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How Nelson Mandela’s Legacy to Advance Access to Education Lives On

Saleforce Nonprofit

As we look at the challenges that we are facing in the world today, I firmly believe that education is the key to us coming together to solve them. Charlotte Kirby: Why and how did you start Malaika? After all, as Nelson Mandela said, education is the greatest weapon that we have to improve the state of the world.