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International Women’s Day is a global celebration every year on March 8. It is a day when women are recognized for their cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements. This year’s theme is “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,” which calls for climate action for women by women.

International Women’s Day grew out of the labor movement in 1908 when nearly 15,000 women marched in New York demanding better working hours,

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Phillis Wheatley

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

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Asenath Andrews is interviewed at the Women in the World summit in New York, 2012. (Marc Bryan-Brown)

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

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