Vel Phillips was a distinguished civil rights activist and politician in Wisconsin, celebrated for her groundbreaking accomplishments in public service. In 1956, she became the first Black person and woman elected to the Milwaukee Common Council, marking a historic achievement. She continued to break barriers by becoming the first Black
In 2017, the National Cathedral removed its stained-glass windows featuring images of the Confederate flag and Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Finally, they are to be replaced with new racial justice-themed windows designed by lauded artist Kerry James Marshall. A poem by Elizabeth Alexander, inscribed in
