Category: Women

  • NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom NBC News 2015-11-25 Katherine G. Johnson calculated the flight path for the first American mission to space. The 97-year-old was one of 17 Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday.

  • President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Office of the Press Secretary The White House Washington, D.C. 2015-11-16 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially…

  • In February, Latina magazine listed “6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World.” Naturally, Miriam Jiménez Román was second on the list.

  • I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in Leeds, Yorkshire the UK and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial…

  • Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…

  • She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.

  • Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features Métis women in stunning exhibit CBC News 2015-11-08 Visual artist Leah Dorion said this painting is dedicated to Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier from Fort Providence, N.W.T. (Eric Anderson/CBC) Country Wives and Daughters of the Country: Métis Women of This Land at the Affinity Gallery Visual artist Leah Marie Dorion grew up…

  • Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Yale University Press 2013-01-08 424 pages 64 b/w illus. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300124347 Barbara Ransby, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, African American Studies & History University of Illinois, Chicago Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the…

  • Halle Berry and the Myth of the Black Man-Eating Bitch For Harriet 2015-11-06 Kelly Davis Brookyln, New York I have a complicated relationship with Halle Berry. I have admired her work, mainly Losing Isaiah and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She inspired my haircut senior year of college, not long after she won her history-making Academy Award.…

  • ‘Monstress’: Inside The Fantasy Comic About Race, Feminism And The Monster Within The Hollywood Reporter 2015-11-03 Graeme McMillan “I didn’t realize how massive it was until I started writing it,” creator Marjorie Liu tells THR. Monstress, a new comic book series from Image Comics which launches this week, is all about hidden depths. Not only…