new york – mutterhood

Brenda Berkman

September 15, 2020September 11, 2020

Brenda Berkman was in her apartment in Brooklyn the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 when she got a call from a friend in Kentucky telling her to turn on her TV. That was the moment that Brenda, one of the first female firefighters in New York City, knew something catastrophic …

Madam C.J. Walker

September 2, 2020September 1, 2020

The first American woman to become a self-made millionaire started out with a simple wish: to earn enough money to give her only daughter the formal education she herself never received. What she did instead was prove the ability of women to succeed on their own terms. Madam C.J. Walker’s …