Archive for February, 2024
Women and Adversity: Ada Harris Inventor of the Hair Straightener
February 22, 2024Women and Adversity: Ada Harris Inventor of the Hair Straightener At least 30 women were deprived of glory when men either stole their ideas or were given credit for what women discovered. Sin ...
Women and Adversity: Gwendolyn Brooks, First Black to Win a Pulitzer Prize
February 24, 2022I met Gwendolyn Brooks in 1990 when I asked her to be a featured speaker in a writers’ conference I organized at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She was one of the most g ...