Francia Márquez — a former housekeeper and activist—is Colombia’s first Black vice president. For the first time in Colombia’s history, a Black woman is close to the top of the executive branch. Francia Márquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and becoming the country’s first Black vice president on 29th of May, as the running mate to Gustav

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Women Redraw London tube map with women's names.

✺ Recommended book⁠ ❛⁠ War's Unwomanly Face (Voices of Utopia #1) by Svetlana Alexievich ❜⁠ ⁠ This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. ⁠ ⁠ More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fired

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