I never wanted to be a novelist. When I was in high school, I saw Missing, a movie about an American journalist named Charles Horman. In the early seventies, he and his wife traveled to Chile, which had elected a socialist president. Horman had written about politics for a wide array of newspapers and magazines, and […]
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When I first read James Damore’s now infamous memo to his coworkers, I wasn’t outraged, or even angry, really. I don’t believe that Damore is a misogynist or a bad person, and he was clearly convinced enough of the soundness of his own argument that he distributed his opinions company-wide. That doesn’t change the fact […]
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Many facts about the famed Shoshone guide Sacagawea’s life, particularly the dates of her birth and death, are unknown. However, all records portray her as a valued member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which first explored the land beyond Missouri and paved the way for westward expansion. She distinguished herself as brave and resourceful […]
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Rosa Parks is often called the “mother of the civil rights movement.” When she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, activists organized a city-wide bus boycott. It was the beginning of a long struggle which changed segregation laws forever. Rosa Parks and her husband, […]
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In 1935, after earning a Master’s degree in zoology at Johns Hopkins University, Rachel Carson began working at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (known then as the Bureau of Fisheries). Her duties in the publication department — creating informational materials — required both scientific and writing skills. From 1949 to 1952, she was […]
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On March 8th, social media platforms exploded with posts from all around the world in support of International Women’s Day, and what a beautiful sight it was to see the Internet sprawling with pictures of women’s rights movements from the generations before us, to see the hashtag #internationalwomensday captioning almost every post, and to see […]
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Susan B. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election. At her trial, she insisted that it was her constitutional right as a United States citizen to vote. She was found guilty and was fined $100, which she refused to pay. Anthony was a successful teacher who left the profession and became […]
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Clara Barton was born in 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She first showed an aptitude for nursing as a young girl in Massachusetts when she took care of an older brother for two years after a serious accident. At that time in America, women tended ill family members but had no opportunity for professional training as […]
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BP-rXUGBPJa/ It’s just a matter of fact now that when Beyoncé does something, the world talks about it — especially if it affects her personal life. So when the announcement was released that Beyoncé was pregnant with twins, the Internet blew up, and her artfully posed image quickly became the most liked Instagram image of […]
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