Honey Has Numerous Health Benefits for Bees
From pesticide detox to increased longevity, the pros of the sweet stuff go well beyond simply nourishing the hardworking insects in the hive
Harriet Tubman – The Journey to Freedom
Wesley Wofford Sculpture Studio
The sculpture is currently on tour, and in downtown Sylva, North Carolina
Emmy and Academy Award winning sculptor Wesley Wofford works from his private studio…
Re-inventing Work: An Interview with Matthew Fox
–by Leslee Goodman, syndicated from moonmagazine.org, Nov 12, 2020
An Episcopalian priest and theologian, Matthew Fox began his career as a member of the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church…
Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
By Shelley M. Jagow
Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music.
UNSPINNING THE SPIN
Unspinning the Spin is a guide on the background, current uses, accuracy, nonbiased alternatives, and best practices for choosing and de-coding commonly used words and phrases.
at The Women’s …
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize
Campaigning journalists from the Philippines and Russia have won the 2021 Nobel peace prize as the Norwegian committee recognised the vital importance of an independent media to democrac…
Recovering Women’s Reproductive Lives, One Mutilated Record at a Time
by Catherine Prendergast
Catherine Prendergast is a Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. Her latest book and fir…
Difference Between Healing and Curing
Michael Lerner, PhD
In my thirty years of working with cancer patients, I’ve seen a profound distinction between curing and healing.
A River Reawakened
By Jessica Plumb in Orion
Ten Years of Rewilding the Elwha Watershed
IN SEPTEMBER 2011, I stood on a river overlook with children from my daughter’s elementary school, all of us transfixed b…
Dolores Huerta: An American Latino Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist by Pramod Sukumaran
by Pramod Sukumaran
Dolores Huerta taught us sí se puede—yes we can.
This was Huerta’s rallying cry as she inspired Latino farm workers to demand fair wages and better working cond…
North Carolina League of Conservation Voters
We advocate for your environmental values to protect your family and community.
Ph.D. candidate named Ruth Bader Ginsburg Predoctoral Fellow
By Emma Rothberg
June 9, 2021
The National Women’s History Museum has named Emma Rothberg, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, as an inaugural U.S. Supreme Court …