Tag: WOMENS LIVES

Who Was Pauli Murray?

On a recent episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick discussed the legacy of Pauli Murray—a Black, non-binary, queer, feminist, civil rights pioneer who was also a poet, a teacher, a lawyer and legal activist, and ultimately an Episcopal priest—with...

Frances Perkins, 1911

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by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engines and people screaming. They rushed out to the...

SUE FORD and Village Marimba

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Summer 2021 Village Marimba Classes for both youths and adults

A Litany of Survival by Audre Lorde

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For those of us who live at the shorelinestanding upon the constant edges of decisioncrucial and alone

WOMEN IN MUSIC

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Women in Music is the industry’s leading non-profit working to advance the awareness, equality, diversity, heritage, opportunities, and cultural aspects of women in the musical arts through education,...

Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here’s How a New Museum Captures That History

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By Alli Hartley-Kong SMITHSONIANMAG.COM OCTOBER 26, 2020 The first of the “silent sentinel” protests occurred on January 10, 1917.

Mary Simon is sworn in as Canada’s first Inuk Governor General

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Mary Simon was officially sworn in as Canada’s 30th governor general and is the first Indigenous person to hold the position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnFl0s_CspE

The New Woman Behind the Camera

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At The Met Fifth Avenue JULY 2–OCTOBER 3, 2021 Exhibition Overview – Exhibitions are free with Museum admission.

United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program –

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The National Women’s History Museum couldn’t be more excited to share the first five women selected for the United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program:

Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University

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In an exclusive interview, Hannah-Jones reveals that she and fellow award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will launch new Center for Democracy and Journalism at Washington, DC HBCU

Only person to win Nobel Prize in two different sciences

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A leading figure in the history of sciences, Marie Curie was prohibited from higher education in her native Poland. Many years later, she became the first woman Nobel laureate. She remains the only person to win the most coveted prize in two different...

Cecilia Payne and the Composition of the Stars – Part of the Cosmic Horizons Curriculum Collection.

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What are the stars made of? The answer to this fundamental question of astrophysics was discovered in 1925 by Cecilia Payne and explained in her Ph.D. thesis. Payne showed how to decode the complicated spectra of starlight in order to learn the...