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August 18, 2016

From student sports to the Olympics, female athletes have Title IX to thank for the opportunity—and so much more

“I lived in a time when there were no scholarships for women who played any sport…if you were a woman and a jock, you were just out of place.

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January 20, 2016

Willa Johnson Cofield: Still undaunted, still active, still inspiring students and young educators

As a young teacher in an all-Black segregated school in NC, when Willa Johnson taught her students how to register to vote she was summoned to the principal’s office and summarily fired.

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