Lillian Wald founded the Henry Street Settlement in 1893 on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

In the summer of 1962, angry about her disenfranchisement as a Black woman, Hamer became an SNCC organizer.

Fannie Lou Hamer | Civil Rights Advocate My grandmother, born in 1898, worked as a child sharecropper near Galveston, TX, hoeing...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and Civil Rights advocate in a white supremacist society.

Many consider Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) to be the first computer programmer. Imagine that! She was the first, even without “masculine energy.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first Black woman publisher in North America and the second Black woman to attend law school.

The Silent Sentinels of the National Woman’s Party picketed Wilson’s White House for women’s suffrage for two and a half years between...

Patience Lovell Wright (1725-1786), “the Promethean Modeler,” was one of the first American sculptors.

Hanukkah and Christmas Day, two days of light and hope, are perfect for honoring Irena Sendler, a “She Who Dared” historical woman.

Assembled an Army of 230,000 against the Romans Celtic Queen Boudica, also known as Boadicea, was the queen of the Iceni tribe in ancient...