AKRON — Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city on Wednesday to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist Sojourner Truth at the very spot where the women’s rights pioneer gave an iconic ...

There’s no better example of this than “Ain’t I a woman?,” the hypothetical that Truth supposedly put to the audience when she addressed a women’s rights convention in 1851 in Akron ...

More than a century and a half ago, Sojourner Truth stood before a crowd of White women and asked, “Ain’t I a woman?”. It’s a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York has a new state holiday on November 26: Sojourner Truth Day. It honors the legacy of the African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist whose voice ...