Great Women in History: Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry America‘s foremost black playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930, in Chicago. In 1951, she joined Freedom magazine, a journal founded by Paul Robeson. She began work on A Raisin in the Sun and in 1957 read the first draft to publisher Philip Rose. [...]

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Great Women in History: Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1652/1653), daughter of well-known Roman artist, Orazio Gentileschi (1563 – 1639), was one of the first women artists to achieve recognition in the male-dominated world of post-Renaissance art. In an era when female artists were limited to portrait painting and imitative poses, she was the first woman to paint major historical [...]

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Great Women: Hypatia of Alexandria

Welcome to what will hopefully be a regular feature on this blog and join us as we right (Write? Blog?)  the wrongs of history.  There are many, many, (MANY!) great women who have been lost to history because their stories weren’t considered important enough to be told.  This may not necessarily be newly created content, [...]

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