Minnie Roh, Asian American Life’s reporter, speaks to Shandra Woworuntu, an activist who survived sex trafficking and shares her harrowing account of being held captive as a sex slave in Brooklyn. Tanya Domi interview Tanya Domi
Archive | Empowerment
Walking With Furee
Wanda Imasuen, a Harlem-raised believer in the American Dream, found herself jobless and going to the welfare office. The humiliation she felt, and the persistent efforts of the women at FUREE (Families United for Racial and Economic Equality), led Wanda to become an activist and speaker and to recruit other women to empower themselves. […]
She Rhymes Like A Girl
Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops. This music video/documentary describes Toni’s concentrated effort to provide training and support for emerging female hip-hop artists whose voices, activism and lyrics have been largely unnoticed. Toni Blackman
Our Lady Queen of Harlem
On a crumbling sidewalk in the heart of Spanish Harlem, a small but impassioned group of women are fighting for their community. When the Archdiocese of New York locked the doors of the church where many of them spent their entire lives worshipping, this determined family of parishioners decided to resist the ministerial decision […]
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