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Cook Historic Mexican Recipes With These Newly Digitized Cookbooks | My Modern Met
UTSA librarians and architects adapted this cover image for “Postres” from a 1960s cookbook in the collection. (Photo: Postres, UTSA Libraries Special Collections.) The University of Texas at San Antonio is currently working to bring diverse perspectives on Mexican cuisine together … Continue reading
When Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
The element was hard to get and extremely expensive but essential for Curie’s cancer research Curie, who lived in France for much of her life, had done an interview with an American reporter named Marie Meloney the year before. In … Continue reading
BONUS: The Kerner Commission : Planet Money
In 1967, President Johnson created a commission to investigate racial unrest in America. But, the answer they came up with was not the answer he was hoping for. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. Source: BONUS: The Kerner Commission … Continue reading
How Augusta Savage Helped Shape the Harlem Renaissance
Andrew Herman (active 1930s–1940s), Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration Augusta Savage with her sculpture Realization, 1938 (Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, Photographs and Prints Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden … Continue reading
Freedom House Ambulance Service – 99% Invisible
Back in the 1960s and 70s, in the city of Pittsburgh, there was a nickname for guys like John Moon –The Unemployables. This nickname meant that you simply could not get hired, no matter where you went for a job. … Continue reading
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Leona Tate Turns School She Helped Desegregate Into Center for Equality
By Kelly Richman-Abdou on July 6, 2020 “The history of the school desegregation in New Orleans has not been told correctly…it’s time people learned the truth.” On May 17, 1954, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court … Continue reading
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The most powerful woman you’ve never heard of
Everyone’s heard of Martin Luther King Jr. But do you know the woman Dr. King called “the architect of the civil rights movement,” Septima Clark? The teacher of some of the generation’s most legendary activists — like Rosa Parks, Diane … Continue reading
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Wilma Mankiller | First Female Chief of the Cherokee Nation | #SeeHer Story | Katie Couric Media
Meet Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation — and an inspiration to all Americans. Watch #SeeHer Story, where we’ve partnered with People Magazine and #SeeHer to celebrate women who’ve shaped history.
“Somebody Had to Do It First”: The Story of Shirley Chisholm
Nov 11, 2014 – Barbara Winslow’s ‘Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change’ profiles the first black – or woman – presidential candidate, a person who prided herself on being ‘unbossed and unbought.’ Source: “Somebody Had to Do It First”: The Story … Continue reading
Jon Stewart on Black Lives Matter, Biden vs Trump and ‘Irresistible’
Jon Stewart was at the helm of America’s The Daily Show for 15 years – a satirical news programme and talk show- that questioned and made fun of those in charge as well as the media that reported on them. … Continue reading
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