Early in 2020 Ida B.  Wells was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.  The citation read “For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.  The citation comes with a bequest by… more »

This article was first published as "Three United States Feminists--A Personal Tribute," Jewish Affairs 53.1 (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1998): 37. Alice Stokes Paul (END NOTE 1), characterized as "probably the only charismatic figure generated by the… more »

"Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery." "Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered… more »