Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) became a national leader as founder of the National Association of Colored Women, coining its motto “Lifting As We Climb,” while also serving as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and actively wrote and ...
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Darth Vader never said, “Luke, I am your father.” Rick Blaine never said, “Play it again, Sam.” Hannibal Lecter never said, “Hello, Clarice.”* The same is true for Mae West’s signature line, which she first spoke as the character Lady Lou in the 1933 film ...
After answering an ad seeking a "young woman who can swim and dive; likes horses; desires to travel," Sonora Webster Carver became one of the most famous horse divers in the world. She continued diving for 11 years after being blinded in 1931 as a ...
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[Editor’s Note – February 15, 2022: Bunky Echo-Hawk currently faces a felony charge of lewd or indecent acts to a child.] Artist Biography Bunky Echo-Hawk is a Pawnee artist from Oklahoma who has been painting the reality and resistance of Native American people for almost twenty ...
In the 60 years since Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird,” one of the most widely read books in middle school, was published, the lens through which it frames race and its Black characters has come under scrutiny. PBS NewsHour Weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan spoke ...
Director Charlotte Mangin discusses what went into making Unladylike2020.
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Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003) made history and rocketed to international stardom in 1926 when, at age 20, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, then considered one of the toughest endurance tests in the world, beating the fastest man's existing record by nearly ...
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Mae West didn’t invent sex, but she certainly perfected the art of talking about it. The Broadway-turned-Hollywood bombshell was brash, brassy, and had an appetite for trouble. In short, she was no angel, and proud of it. West broke ground with her characterizations of women ...
When he was 17 years old, Sammy Davis, Jr. was drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War II, "...all of five foot six inches and one hundred twenty pounds," he said in a book about his life. "He had the bad luck ...
Queen Lili‘uokalani (1838-1917) was the first sovereign queen, and the last monarch of Hawai‘i, who assumed the throne in the midst of a government takeover by American business owners supported by the U.S. military. After being deposed and placed under house arrest, she fought to ...
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