Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on US quarter as treasury begins distribution
National Women’s History Museum – the American Women’s Quarters
PARTNERSHIP for Appalachian Girls’ Education
The story of the Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education begins with me: a girl growing up in a working-class family in the Western North Carolina mountains. I was a girl with big dreams but li…
Natalie Portman wanted to shift football culture. So she founded Angel City FC
in The Guardian
The actor formed an ownership group that includes athletes and Hollywood stars to found a different type of team. The club has already sold nearly 16,000 season tickets
First female judge presides over hearing at top court in Egypt
Radwa Helmi sits on bench of state council, marking ‘historic’ step along road to equality
WOMEN’S RAGE
by Miyako Pleines in Ploughshares at Emerson College
Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel stirs up all the women in literature who have been sealing their anger away, letting it churn undisturb…
What to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Historic Nomination to the Supreme Court
in The Smithsonian Magazine
Jackson, a 51-year-old Harvard graduate and former public defender, would be the first Black woman on the Court
Remembering Poet Laureate Ella V. Costner
by Frances Figart in The Great Smokey Mountains Association
Not long ago, I got a voice message from Carol Treiber, a member of Great Smoky Mountains Association, saying that she had read a story…
Eileen Crist – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization
Eileen is Associate Professor Emerita of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University, and a B.A., also in sociology, f…
A Black Woman Could Make the Supreme Court More Reflective of American Values
By Allison Gaines in Zora, and in MEDIUM DAILY DIGEST
It’s time to do what we can to put a Black woman on the bench. Let’s unpack this.
JUDY CHICAGO: The Dinner Party 1982
This featured plate is titled “Sacajawea.”
The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbo…
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE – Meet the Team
Dr. Heidi B. Hammel is an Interdisciplinary Scientist on the James Webb Telescope Project, and her focus is on Webb’s theme “Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life.”
Biography of Anna Julia Cooper
in Douglass Day 2022
Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964) was a visionary black feminist leader, educator, intellectual, and activist. Born into slavery in 1858, she became the fourth African American…