Women and Adversity
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 ...
Women and Adversity: Maya Angelou Author, Poet, Actress, Activist
February 10, 2022When I read that Maya Angelou had written seven autobiographies, I doubted she could maintain interest about her life through all those books. How wrong I was. I Know Why the Caged Bir ...
Women and Adversity: Christiane Amanpour, Journalist
January 27, 2022Women and Adversity: Christiane Amanpour, Journalist One of the most respected and recognized journalists in the world is Christiane Amanpour. She has embraced adversity by covering stories in w ...
Women and Adversity: 2022
January 13, 2022It’s been a tough two years since the pandemic spread around the world. Word is that 2022 will see a decline in infections and deaths from the virus. The hope is that it disintegrates now, never t ...
Women and Adversity: Marie Curie
December 23, 2021Does that perfect gift elude you? Try a biography of one of the most admired women in the world. I posted this blog in May 2021, but Marie Curie is worth reading about again. Born Maria ...
Women and Adversity: Lucille Clifton First Black Poet Laureate of Maryland
December 9, 2021I chose to repeat my blog on Lucille Clifton because those looking for a Christmas present to give may consider her books of poetry. This woman aimed to have Americans realize, through her poe ...
Women and Adversity: Sarah Jane S. T. Garnet Cofounder of Equal Suffrage League of Brooklyn
November 25, 2021Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet argued that it was undemocratic to deny women the vote because they “had the same human intellectual and spiritual capabilities as men.” Garnet had a di ...
Women and Adversity: Admiral Michelle J. Howard
November 11, 2021Since it is Veterans Day, I think it’s appropriate to honor a woman who is a veteran. I never knew that a woman, Michelle Janine Howard, had reached the rank of four-star admiral in the Navy ...
Women and Adversity: Belva Ann Lockwood, First Woman to Argue Before the Supreme Court
October 28, 2021Belva Ann Lockwood’s flamboyant manner and special ability of self-promotion helped people of her era become more aware that women had talents equal to those of men. When she was denied the ri ...
Women and Adversity: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. First Black Female Medical Doctor in U.S.
October 14, 2021I happened to come across an article in 2020 about a fundraiser to buy a headstone for Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. I had never heard or read about this woman, and I wondered how the first Black ...