Women
Twice as Hard
Jasmine Brown is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a masters degree in the history of science, medicine and technology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. As an undergraduate, she founded the Minority Association of Rising Scientists (MARS)—a reaction to the realization that though she was the only black student in…
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Jane Matilda Bolin: Another Guest Post by Rebecca Bratspies
I am delighted to have Rebecca Bratspies back with another story about a woman who deserves to be remembered. On July 22, 1939 Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Jane Matilda Bolin to the New York City Domestic Relations Court (now the Family Court). This made Bolin the very first Black woman to serve as a…
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From the Archives: Madame Lenormand’s Fortune Telling Cards
I am still deep in book mode, with a May 1 deadline bearing down on me–I feel a bit like the heroine in a melodrama who is tied to the tracks and knows the train is coming through the tunnel ANY MINUTE NOW. (Don’t worry. I’m not waiting to be saved, though My Own True…
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