We’re tipping our hats —- or really, our mortarboards —- to Breakthrough president and CEO Mallika Dutt, who will receive an honorary doctorate at Mount Holyoke College’s 175th commencement this May. Mallika —- a Mount Holyoke alumna —- shares this honor with an extraordinary group of earlier MHC honorees of pioneering human rights defenders, including [...]

March 16, 2012 by crissy spivey | Tags: breakthrough, homepage, human rights, Mallika Dutt, Maya Angelou, Mount Holyoke, Rosa Parks, Women | Comments Off

Today’s date: July 16th Claim to fame: Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in 1862 and was granted freedom three years after in 1865 following the end of the Civil War.  In 1884, 71 years before Rosa Parks, she was granted a $500 settlement after she sued a railroad company for forcing her to [...]

July 16, 2009 by rachel | Tags: b-days, Civil Rights, civil war, Evening Star, Ida B. Wells, jim crow laws, Racism, Rosa Parks, Slavery, yellow fever | Comments Off

Today’s Date: April 17, 2009 Claim to Fame: Robinson is often passed over in history lessons, but where she is remembered, it is for her determined activism in several key historical movements. Just several days after news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision began to sweep the country, Robinson, as [...]

April 17, 2009 by akshay | Tags: b-days, Brown vs. Board of Education, Civil Rights, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, montgomery bus boycott, organizing, Racism, Rosa Parks, Women's Political Council | Comments Off