Yaa Asantewaa was an influential Ashanti queen at the beginning of the twentieth century who remains a powerful symbol today. Her birthdate is contested; she is generally believed to be born between the 1840s to 1860s in the Ashanti Confederacy in present-day Ghana. She was a skilled farmer before ascending … Read MoreYaa Asantewaa (mid-1800s-1921)
Image Courtesy of Musee des Arts Asiatiques-Guiment, Paris Malik Ambar was among the tens of thousands of men, women, and children captured in Africa and sold into slavery in the Middle East and India over nearly nine centuries. His story is also an indication of … Read MoreMalik Ambar (1548 -1626)
John Stanford was the superintendent of Seattle Public Schools from 1995 until his untimely death from leukemia in 1998. He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, and graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He joined … Read MoreJohn Stanford (1938-1998)