Fight The Power: 16 Black Activists You Should Know

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Lateefah Simon

At 19, Simon became the youngest  executive director of San Francisco’s Center for Young Women’s Development. She went on to specialize in prison restructuring. While heading up San Francisco’s Reentry Services division, the programs she implemented for former offenders helped cut that city’s recidivism rate to less than 10 percent.

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