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Liberia’s Market Women Test President’s Promise

By Ruthie Ackerman ● Politics ● January 7, 2007

When Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated a year ago she vowed to help market women who had supported her in the election. Today those supporters are anxious to improve schools they set up during the civil war.

Top-Dollar Art World Opens to Women of Color

By Ruthie Ackerman ● Arts & Culture ● May 7, 2006

Female artists of color are riding a wave of popularity with collectors and curators. But while Aminah Lynn Robinson may have work hanging in major museums she still wakes up at 4 a.m., a habit from long years of struggling to make a living.