by tina | Jan 15, 2023 | 2023 Random Honorees, Sketchy Spaces
Few people outside of the science community will recognize the names Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering these days, and even fewer have heard of Loney Clinton Gordon. It is because of these women that the rest of us don’t need to fear whooping cough. During the...
by tina | Jan 7, 2023 | 2023 Random Honorees, Sketchy Spaces
Wildfire Mary Edmonia Lewis was born in Greenbush, New York sometime in the mid 1860s — no one knows exactly when. She was the daughter of an Ojibwa (or part Ojibwa) woman and a Black (Haitian) man. Her life is hard to follow and it seems she might have liked...
by tina | Jan 4, 2023 | 2023 Random Honorees
“Civil Rights Queen,” Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) was a brilliant, talented, and highly skilled jurist and politician. Over the course of her life, she served as a staff attorney for the NAACP, law clerk to Thurgood Marshall, Manhattan Borough...
