Mae Mallory (1927-2007) was one of the many Black women whose activism during the Civil Rights Era went largely unsung. As part...

The Australian physicist Ruby Payne-Scott helped lay the groundwork for a whole new kind of astronomy: radio astronomy. By...

Carlota Lucumí (unknown – 1843) led a violent uprising against plantation owners in Cuba. She was kidnapped from...

Catherine Flon (c. 18th century) was a prominent figure in Haitian history, known for her role in the creation of the Haitian...

Elma Francois (1897-1944) was an Africentric Socialist political activist who is an official “national heroine of Trinidad...

Altheia Jones-Lecointe (1945 – present) is a Trinidadian physician and research assistant known for her role as a leader...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1946-2018) was an activist and social worker who led a key role in the fight against apartheid in...

Sallie Pero Mead was first hired at AT&T in 1915 as a “computer”—a human calculator—shortly after completing her master’s...

Angélica Gorodischer (1928-2022) was an Argentine writer whose short stories ranged in genre from science fiction to fantasy and...