Click here to view original web page at www.washingtonpost.com Former Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart, left, and his replacement on the court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, applaud President Ronald Reagan at the State of the Union address in January 1982. (Associated Press) Julie Cohen is the director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “ RBG ,” […]
Lisa Unger Baskin Exhibition at Duke University Chronicles 500 Years of Women’s Work
Click here to view original web page at www.finebooksmagazine.com On February 28, highlights from Lisa Unger Baskin’s nearly 9,000-piece collection of rare books, ephemera, and other artifacts created and produced by women over the course of five hundred years went on display at Duke University, which acquired the collection in 2015 and incorporated it into […]
Woman who claims descent sues Harvard over refusal to return photos of enslaved man from 1850
Click here to view original web page at www.stlamerican.com Tamara Lanier and Benjamin Crump, her co-lead counsel A Connecticut woman has accused Harvard University of the wrongful seizure, possession and monetization of photographic images of her family’s patriarch, an enslaved African man named Renty, and his daughter, Delia, according to a filing in Middlesex County […]
Celebrating National Women’s History Month
Click here to view original web page at www.telluridenews.com Women have always made history, but their feats, activism and monumental accomplishments often got swept under the rug, never taught in schools and their stories were not always told. To address the absence of women’s history in the K-12 United States public school curriculum, the Education […]
The first all-female spacewalk is set for this week. A woman from Naperville helped create the station where it will happen.
Click here to view original web page at www.chicagotribune.com NASA engineer Dawn Schaible, left, works during the flight test of the Max Launch Abort System on July 8, 2009, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. (Dawn Schaible) Women’s History Month could conclude this week with its own bit of history, […]
Paying Tribute to Women in Railroading
Click here to view original web page at www.pahomepage.com SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY – (WBRE/WYOU) March is women’s history month, and Scranton is paying tribute to all of the hardworking women who made a difference in our society. This weekend, Steamtown National Historic Site is putting on a special program to highlight many of their accomplishments. […]