Today we celebrate Dr. Justina Ford. Not only was she a true pioneer and trailblazer who made history by overcoming the barriers of race and gender to become the first African American woman to practice medicine in Colorado. She was compassionate, fair,… more »

Phillis Wheatley / by an unidentified artist / Engraving on paper, 1773 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Poet Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston, Massachusetts, on a slave ship in 1761, after having  been kidnapped at age seven… more »