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Psychologist discusses how generational trauma affects Black women
Most people experience a traumatic event some time during their lives — losing a loved one, being the victim of violence or ...
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Willa Brown: America’s First Licensed Black Female Pilot
Willa Brown’s life was marked by many significant firsts for her and American history. The Black travel history-maker was an ambitious woman with big dreams as a pioneering pilot and, later, in ...
The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as white
Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
Make Britain confident again: manifesto for a woman of firsts
Kemi Badenoch has the toughest job in British politics. She is the leader of the British Conservative party and therefore of His Majesty’s Opposition. This week Donald Trump, apparently the progenitor ...
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In 'Dreaming in Ensemble,' WPI professor explores how Black artists helped transform opera
WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...
The Sacramento Observer1d
The Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Passing
In the early 20th century — a time when men held most positions of authority — Greene was a celebrated book agent, a curator and the first director of the Morgan Library. She also earned US$10,000 a ...