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Today in the Women’s Empowerment discovery term, we watched the film Hidden Figures in the morning, which follows 3 brilliant black women who work at NASA who serve as the brains behind the operation of launching John Glenn into...

Today, the Women’s Empowerment Discovery Term spent their time in Charlotte. After a 2.5 hour bus ride (full of naps) we got a short tour of the South Side of the city through the numerous murals. Most expressed the history of...

Today, we had guest speaker Dr. Kenya Oduor and spoke about her experiences and challenges being a woman as well as a person of color. She provided advice and inspired the students in many ways. Dr. Kenya Oduor is the...

Today we went to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown museum, which is what used to be the school Dr. Brown ran. The school was called Palmer Memorial Institute and was a major school for black children that held kids k-12. The Charlotte...

The Empowering Women D.T. started the day by sharing collages we had created the day about “feminism” and “women’s rights.” Everyone created a different one based on pictures we found in magazines...