My Selection — Ain’t I A Woman?
by Sojourner Truth
On this International Woman’s Day, Sojourner Truth’s words echo loudly 170 years since they were first delivered. Her direct and stark questioning of what it means to be counted as ‘woman’ at a time when there were clear differences between the expectation of women’s rights and black women’s rights, and her calling out of the truth of the inherent strength, resilience, and…