written by Allison Neumeyer Dolly Parton is a world-renowned singer-songwriter and a lesser-known philanthropist.   Dolly was born on January 19, 1946, in Locust, Tennessee. Dolly was raised surrounded by music living just on the cusp of the poverty line. Her music career started when she was just 10 years old. Parton has been performing […]

Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Jamaica. Her mother was Jamaican and a doctress who practiced traditional herbal medicine, running a boarding house called Blundell Hall, for the ill and handicapped, and her father was a Scottish soldier stationed in Kingston (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019). Growing up in this atmosphere, constantly surrounded […]

Emma Goldman Emma Goldman was an incredibly influential anarchist whose teachings paved the way for labor and feminist movements giving new life to the anarchist movement. Goldman was born in 1869 in Kaunas Lithuania, now Kovno, and grew up in St. Petersburg where she lived in a community and state of violence and fear. She […]

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