MTV Congrats, Irene!

Mic Feminist and civil rights hero Dorothy Height was just honored with a new postage stamp. Get a daily dose of feminism in your inbox: http://bit.ly/2jArX46

Washington Post President Barack Obama once called Height “the godmother of the civil rights movement." Now, on the first day of Black History Month, she is remembered.

Moviefone "I was at a sushi restaurant having chocolate soufflé, while crying, speaking to my manager like, 'I'm Dorothy.'"

Washington Post Sports An interesting passage from the new memoir written by Irene Pollin, wife of the late Wizards and Capitals owner.

NATPE 18-year-old Shanice Williams has landed the starring role of Dorothy in the upcoming production of #TheWizLive! Read more via Entertainment Weekly.

Jezebel This will hopefully end the barrage of emails I’ve been getting since May asking me about Dorothy auditions. Please stop :)

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TheRoot.com This is your chance to weigh in on whom you would like to see as Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Wicked Witch!

TheRoot.com #RootDisruptor: Dorothy Height While the name Dorothy Height is recognizable, many of her accomplishments are not. Height, who died recently in 2010 at the age of 98, was a social rights activist, administrator, and educator. After earning her bache Read more ... lor’s and master’s degrees at New York University, Height later became active in fighting for social injustices. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004. Also during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Height organized “Wednesdays in Mississippi,” which brought together black and white women from the North and South to engage in dialogue about relevant social issues. Dorothy Height is quoted as saying “I want to be remembered as someone who used herself and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom…I want to be remembered as one who tried,” a motto she lived by until her death.