They stood in front of the White House all day, every day (except for Sundays) for two and a half years, bearing silent witness to women’s voting rights denied. Dressed in white, with purple and gold sashes draped over their shoulders, the Silent Sentinels, as these women were known, stood …
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American civil rights activist who first learned she had the right to vote in 1962, more than 40 years after passage of the 19th Amendment. Her courageous fight to register to vote in Montgomery County, Mississippi led to a lifetime of civil rights work that …
The crowd inside the Tennessee State Capitol on Aug. 18, 1920 was colorful, to say the least. Men, mostly state legislators, sported red roses pinned to the lapels of their black suits; women wearing suffragette white filled the visitor’s gallery, yellow roses pinned to their hats, their dresses, even carried …
Women helping women is how Adelaide Johnson rose to modest acclaim as a sculptor in the late 1890’s. Known as the “sculptress of the women’s movement” Adelaide Johnson is best known for The Portrait Monument, a sculpture of suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Now …
Happy World Honey Bee Day! The buzz is that more than one-third of the world’s fruits, vegetables and flowers are dependent on bees – and they are disappearing. It’s the mission of one of the world’s most preeminent experts, entomologist Dr. Marla Spivak to change that. A chance encounter with …
Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Clara Huerta has always been a force. She spoke of farm workers as essential workers decades before the term became part of the our daily vocabulary. Her rallying cry, “¡Sí se puede!” (Yes, we can!) has inspired more than one movement — maybe even …
“All we wanted was to be stewards of this house,” Laura Luce says, looking out to the sunken back yard of her historic David Adler home in Lake Forest, Illinois. A careful restoration that respects the famed architect’s vision while at the same time creating a welcoming place to call …
Her name means Lotus in Sanskrit. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said her questioning “makes me nervous”. She made a YouTube video to teach Senator Mark Warner how to make a decent tuna melt. And yesterday California Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first Black woman and first woman …
Is it possible to create an image of something that by definition is impossible to see? That was the question computer scientist Katie Bouman set out to answer five years ago as a lead member of the Event Horizon Telescope, an international collaboration between astronomers, engineers, physicists and mathematicians tasked …
