Phillis Wheatley’s life would make for a fairly depressing TV miniseries, but her inner strength and contributions to African American literature shouldn’t be overlooked.
I can imagine the discussion in the CBS conference room: “February sweeps … Black History Month … Clinton allegations … let’s do a miniseries on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings!” Not that there isn’t a story to be told, or that the founding Fathers should be exempt from investigation. It’s just that, as far as I can te
Asenath Andrews is interviewed at the Women in the World summit in New York, 2012. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
These women have built social networks, developed schools, and designed energy-generating soccer balls. What global issues are these Mothers of Invention tackling next?
When it comes to ingenuity, these women have a motherlode.
What’s a mother of invention? Answer, a woman who sees a social problem and decides to use her own ingenuity and dynamism to try and fix it—and then was lucky enough t
