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Humanitarian. Family Doctor. Trailblazer. Fighter. These are all fitting words used to describe the incredible Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama’s nominee for U.S. Surgeon General. In her life she has overcome tremendous odds, and has used tragedies in her life as fuel to make a significant impact on health and human services in this country.
Born in 1956 in Mobile, Alabama, her commitment to preventable diseases resulted from witnessing …

This essay originally was published on The Vyne, a blog created by the author and her partner, Keesha Boyd, to celebrate upwardly mobile Black women. The opinions they express are their own, not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
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“I am foremost a rabbi who happens to be African-American, not The African-American Rabbi” – Rabbi Alysa Stanton.
On June 6 in Cincinnati, Alysa Stanton became the first black woman in the United States ever ordained to the Jewish religion’s sacred post. This compassionate and tenacious spiritual leader …