Category: Women’s Studies
The Museum That Saved Chicago’s History
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Who was the pioneer settler of Chicago? The answer is Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, an African American from Sainte-Domingue, Haiti. Margaret Burroughs, a founder of the DuSable Museum of African-American History in...
One Woman’s Solution to HIV/AIDS
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Approximately 8,500 people die daily from AIDS and no medical or technological magic bullet is on the horizon. Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott, co-director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of...
Are Teachers Afraid To Challenge Blacks?
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Why is the national average for Blacks graduating from high school so low (only 51 percent)? Dr. Gail Thompson, author and educator, shares her theory about the below average performance of some of today’s Black stu...
Mrs. Norman, We Love You
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Education at its best ( 631) Guest: Mrs. Ruth Stephenson Norman
The First Lady of Boxing
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FIRST LADY OF BOXING. Patricia Jarman is used to keeping up with some of the toughest men in the world. Jarman, also known as the "First Lady of Boxing" is a pioneer in the sport, becoming a prominent judge for heavyw...
The Soul of a Congresswoman
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She is called the “Warrior on the Hill.” A political pioneer and civil and human rights icon, Eleanor Holmes Norton represents the District of Columbia in Congress. Norton discusses her career and the “fire in her so...
A Talk with a Brilliant Mind
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While soaring professionally, pioneering journalist and author Barbara Reynolds almost drowned in a private hell of the demons from her past -- abandonment by her mother, incest, longing for the children she did not b...
Historical Black Women in The Military
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African-American women in military service also did not receive proper recognition for their service. Reflecting that apartheid custom, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only African-American WA...
