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In November 1968, Shirley Chisholm stood before supporters in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, having just won election to the United States Congress — the first Black...
On a September morning in 1948, a thirty-eight-year-old Albanian nun stepped through the gates of the Loreto convent in Calcutta and walked into the Motijhil...
On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling. Sister Teresa had taught at St. Mary's High School...
On October 7, 1950, the Vatican officially recognized a tiny new religious order in Calcutta, India. Its founder, a 40-year-old Albanian nun named Agnes Bojaxhiu...
Imagine, if you will, the moment when Abram stood at the threshold of everything he had ever known. The sun dipped low on the horizon, casting a golden glow over the fields that had been his home, the village bustling...