For Nneka and Mary “Dicey” Scroggins, advocacy is a family affair. The mother-daughter duo from Washington, D.C., have turned Dicey Scroggins’ personal cancer journey into a global crusade of awareness about women’s cancer detection in underserved communities around the world. For two years in the mid-’90s, Dicey Scroggins, now 63, experienced unusual abdominal bloating, weight…

In a recent interview with the Improper Bostonian, Emmy Award-winning star of Orange Is the New Black Uzo Aduba recalls telling her mother of a childhood desire to be called “Zoe,” a name more easily pronounced than her given Nigerian name, Uzoamaka. Aduba’s mother offered the following reply: “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo…