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Yasantua, the Queen Mother of Ejisu in the Ashanti Empire (part of modern-day Ghana), personified resistance when the men of the Ashanti government did not stand up to the British government, and led a force of 5,000 to fight the British, retaining the sanctity of the golden stool with the Ashanti nation.

Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence from European colonization in 1957, and the leaders of that movement leveraged their influence and success to advocate for the liberation of all people in Africa – and how cooperation is necessary for the liberation of all.

The tradition of activism among Black athletes is as old as sports in America, and Black athletes used the integration of sports as a way to challenge the hypocrisy of segregation in the political, educational, and other aspects of American life.

Enslaved women in the Americas in the 1800’s used traditional African American quilting techniques to create generational art, tell stories, and encode messages of pathways to freedom.