One of the defining highlights of her remarkable life came in 2015, when President Barack Obama personally invited her to light the National Christmas Tree — honoring the moment by presenting her with a commemorative coin bearing the presidential seal.
”I look at it now and it seems almost unreal. It was something I never had dreamed and it turned out to be wonderful,” Soskin said in 2021.
Followed politics very closely
Right up until her final days, Soskin remained deeply engaged in the world around her — especially politics. In an interview with The Guardian, she spoke candidly about how she viewed the current political climate in the United States.
Soskin made it clear she was far from disengaged. “I follow politics very closely,” she said during a video call from her home in Richmond, where she lived with her daughter, Di’ara. Reflecting on the long arc of history she had witnessed, she added: “Even going through the 50s and the 60s with civil rights, that was all [progress].”Continue reading…
