ARETHA FRANKLIN ~ The History Today
Aretha Franklin’s childhood was stolen before she even understood what childhood meant.
When she was six years old, her mother Barbara left Detroit, escaping a difficult marriage. Barbara didn’t a…
Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan 2005
About Women’s Media Center
In 2005, Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem founded the Women’s Media Center (WMC), a progressive, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to raise the visibil…
Dorothea Lange’s Five Most Iconic Images
The Other 98%’s Post
Thalidomide was one signature away from being sold to pregnant American women. Frances Kelsey stopped it and saved thousands of lives.
The year was 1960. Thalidomide was already the best-se…
She Walked Over 200 Miles in the Snow to Feed a Starving Army. The Oneida Nation Has Remembered Polly Cooper for 250 Years.
At the National Women’s History Museum
… we’re working to ensure the women whose courage, ingenuity, and leadership shaped our nation are recognized not as footnotes, but as an essential part of our shared history.
Dear Jean…
During a hurricane, Asheville North Carolina seniors formed a POD that may help them age in place
by Jessica Blough CNN
Asheville, North Carolina 2026
Members of an Asheville pod gather weekly for communal dinners, a tradition that they started in the wake of Hurricane Helene…
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: the new wave of women photographers – in pictures
From Black debutantes to Bolivian matriarchs, this year’s Saltzman-Leibovitz prize shows the diverse subjects being tackled by the next generation of female storytellers.
Winner: Marisol Mende…
Celebrating Women in April and May
April and May are months dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements and raising awareness about women’s rights and challenges. Here are some key observances during these months:
April: Informed…
Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women—Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science
AT LARGE by Katherine Soniat
in The Thinking Republic
The winged-warrior pathologies antiquely arranged are meant to stay. Why blame old cartographer for plans on water? Or latter-day men wh…
