A governor, generals and scores of veterans were on hand to see Harriet Tubman posthumously became a one-star, brigadier general in the Maryland Army National Guard on Monday.
The Women’s March showed a step away from celebratory pink and a campaign focusing on represenation and a leaned into the serious, women’s issues at stake.
A newspaper in Palm Springs eliminated opinion pieces on national politics for a month to see if divisions in the community lessened. They did, a lesson for us.
A Maryland commission on reconcilliation is holding hearings to examine historic lynchincs and unite the descendants of victims and perpetrators. Is it working?
Ansché Hedgepeth was 12 when she was handcuffed for eating a french fry on the Metro. Her mom sued. Ansché can’t believe she’s seeing child arrests persist.
Nearly 10 years after it was announced. Harriet Tubman is yet to be on the $20 bill. The U.S. Mint - now run by a Black woman - just issued Tubman coins.
Lilly Ledbetter became known as the ‘equal pay lady.’ But even after a law was named for her, she kept talking about the ways unequal pay follows women for life.
We revisit some of the girls who were middle-schoolers when we spent election night 2016 with them. They’re now women, voting for the first time, with vengeance.
Lillian E. Pharr was the oldest living Washingtonian until her death last month. It was her unstoppable painting, travel and studies that kept her going to 109.