Last Saturday afternoon, there was a full-on dance party at a polling place in Philadelphia where “The Cha Cha Slide” blasted from a flatbed truck and every voter waiting in line was grooving, including the man in front wearing a t-shirt that said “F—k 2020”. This happy little dance party, …
Turns out those folks in Salem Village, MA could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and a bunch of lives if they had just turned to science for the answers. In 1692, young village girls began experiencing violent fits that included contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. The general …
She was just 19 when she wrote her classic horror novel during a rainy, claustrophobic summer in Switzerland in 1816. But what Mary Godwin Shelley created in her half-dead monster Frankenstein would haunt reader’s imaginations for centuries to come. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in London in 1797. Her mother, …
Some of history’s famous female feuds have turned ugly. From verbal lashings — Joan Crawford and Bette Davis sniped at each other for over 40 years. To assault — Tonya Harding had Nancy Kerrigan kneecapped. To the drastic — Queen Elizabeth I had her rival Mary Queen of Scots beheaded. …
It was a short paragraph in her sorority’s alumni booklet that shined a light on one of America’s leading mathematicians whose work, like that of so many accomplished Black women, was hidden away for decades. Its impact, however, is felt every time you ask Siri for directions, tag a photo …
Yo ho, yo ho, it was a pirate’s life for her. Mary Read spent much of her life dressed in male clothing, engaging in the traditional male activities of the time like soldiering, sailoring and eventually, pirating. It seems she was born to it. With her sailor husband was lost …
Wilma Mankiller was the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation whose work helped to change a century of government policy.
She lived 95 years, as many years as necessary to complete the work she felt called to do. And the FBI maintained a file on her up until the end. Educator. Newspaper publisher. Civil rights activist. Housing and labor rights advocate. Outspoken critic of police violence. Vice presidential candidate. Charlotta …
As a war correspondent, Dickey Chapelle talked her way onto the front lines of battlefields from WWII to Vietnam and revolutions in places like Hungary, Algeria, Lebanon and Cuba. Unmistakable in her uniform of fatigues, harlequin glasses and pearl earrings, Dickey covered the world’s hotspots. She took photos under fire …
She stood down the Texas Rangers and spoke out for the rights of her Mexican American community. Education, Jovita Idár believed, was the key to equality.