March 28, 2018 in Modern Worthies Beate Klarsfeld Professional Nazi Hunter Together with her husband Serge, this woman has spent her life tracking down war criminals and bringing them to justice.
March 26, 2018 in Modern Worthies Millie Veasey One of the Last of the All-Black, All-Woman WW2 Unit Part of a WW2 unit that untangled a logistics nightmare, she lived to a hundred and helped run a chapter of the NAACP.
March 24, 2018 in Modern Worthies Franca Viola The Survivor Who Refused to Marry Her Rapist In the 60s, an Italian woman was abducted and raped - and then pressured to marry her rapist. She instead took him to court and got him tossed into jail.
March 22, 2018 Trinidad and Tobago gets its first female president "I’m sorry guys…make way. We are coming strong and we are moving forward."
March 21, 2018 The Women Resurrecting An Ancient Epic of Women Warriors Uzbeki women are putting on a stage retelling of the tale "Forty Girls" about a teen girl who rejects marriage in favor of hanging out with 40 horsewomen on an island.
March 20, 2018 in Modern Worthies Georgia Gilmore The Cook Who Secretly Fed the Civil Rights Movement She organized the Club From Nowhere - a collection of chefs who helped the effort in anonymity, to avoid reprisals in their personal and professional lives.
March 19, 2018 in Modern Worthies Marielle Franco Brazil's Anti-Police-Brutality Martyr Activist When she was assassinated for her critiques of the police, protests broke out across Brazil.
March 16, 2018 Finding Sheila D Minor A Twitter thread hellbent on identifying the only woman at a 1971 whale biology conference took a couple (great) turns.
March 12, 2018 Canadian currency will now feature its first Canadian woman Civil rights icon Viola Desmond is often compared to Rosa Parks, for refusing to take a lesser seat based on racial discrimination laws.
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