12 Facts About Margaret Prescod

Margaret Prescod is an activist, author, journalist and radio host.

Margaret Prescod was a founder of The Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders and of Black Women for Wages for Housework.

Margaret Prescod was born in Barbados and emigrated to the United States in 1962 as a teenager.

Margaret Prescod started a course at the Teachers College, Columbia University, but left to work in remedial teaching for adults.

Margaret Prescod became involved with the United Nations, and was part of the series of conferences that were part of the Decade for Women.

Margaret Prescod launched the International Black Women for Wages for Housework programme with Wilmette Brown in 1975.

Margaret Prescod was involved with the Wages for Housework campaign, and delivered evidence at both the Democratic and Republican Party annual conventions.

In particular, Margaret Prescod looked to involve women's unwaged work in consideration of economic analyses.

In 1986, Margaret Prescod founded the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders, which was established in response to the murder of eleven women in South Los Angeles.

Margaret Prescod was concerned with ensuring that the coalition looked to encourage the police and policy makers to investigate the murders and not to malign the victims.

Margaret Prescod is presently the host and executive producer of the Sojourner Truth radio show which is broadcast by KPFK and syndicated by radio stations WPFW and WBAI in New York City, named after the abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth.

Margaret Prescod's daughter, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, is a cosmologist, science writer and equality activist.