New Design - Liberty Equality Sorority

February 09, 2017

Columbia, the Goddess of America. There was a time when the personification of the United States was fearless and female, and with all due respect to Uncle Sam, it's time to rally behind her once more -- for when America's foes are domestic, then those who have worn the yoke of domestication must lead the fight.

Liberty-Equailty-Sorority: the tripartite motto evokes not only the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen drafted by proto-feminist Olympe de Gouges during the French Revolution, but also the origins of feminist thought in the United States. Taking cues from de Gouges, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments - born of the famous Seneca Falls Convention and transcribed by Frederick Douglass - gave voice to the movement that persists today.

The timeless words are inset as a backdrop to Columbia's unyielding charge for liberty, sword and banner in hand. So take fast the folds of her skirt. For there are no tears into the fabric of a society more poignant and powerful than those that arise from a rallying cry.

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New Design - ¡Venceremos!

August 09, 2017

¡Venceremos! -- "we shall overcome" -- has long served as a rallying cry throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

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New Design - Drinkin' Gourd

May 15, 2017

According to legend, the slave hymn "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd" served as both inspirational and instructional -- that by following the lines of the Gourd (the Big Dipper) to the North Star, runaway slaves could find their way to freedom

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