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Donnel Baird Uses Community Power to Generate Green Energy Projects

EmbedVideo(5818, 482, 304); The rugged setting of Donnel Baird's youth helped shape his social entrepreneur goals later in life. Baird grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his parents and sister in the 1980s.

Gloria Steinem: Women Can't 'Have It All' Until There's Equality

Gloria Steinem: Women Can't 'Have It All' Until There's Equality…

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Our Past Still Speaks: Re-examining the Voting Rights Act

By Ray Suarez

President Lyndon Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965, the year it was signed into law. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images Let me begin this discussion of the landmark Voting Rights…

The Tuesday Cutline... a Winner!

By Colleen Shalby

Did you do a double take at last week's bus-riding panda photo? Don't even pretend that you didn't have to verify that you were actually looking at person wearing a costume…

My Friend Who Made History

By Judy Woodruff

Charlayne Hunter-Gault broke barriers when she arrived to the University of Georgia in 1961. Her strength and fortitude allowed her to thrive on a racially hostile campus would serve her in her future career as an award-winning journalist.

Holmes Dixon Crossed the Altar, Busted Barriers

Jane Holmes Dixon was the second woman bishop in the Episcopal Church and served as the Bishop of Washington pro tempore from 2001-2002. In honor of "Makers: Women Who Make America," Ray Suarez remembers a woman who inspired his family.

How To Lift Half the World

Perhaps new forms of advocacy and different types of activists can help us re-frame thinking about inequality from a problem for women to a problem for humans.