by Michele Genthon | Jul 3, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
When Misty Copeland was named principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre this week, her achievement was noted because she is the First African-American Woman to hold this position. Of course she was already known in the ballet world as she worked her way up to...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 8, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. [Maya Angelou] Maya Angelou was the first African-American woman to. . . –work as a cable car conductor in San Francisco –work as a cable car conductor in San...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 2, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
“I think all wars are a tragedy, and to critique it, you have to look at it. . .to examine and experience the futility of war, to engage in that subject and treat it as a raw, primal, experiential observation.” [Kathryn Bigelow] Kathryn Bigelow is a visual artist and...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 4, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
How does one write about Toni Morrison using ordinary words? Toni Morrison has won nearly every book prize awarded and in 2006 The New York Times Book Review named her novel Beloved, the best novel in the previous 25 years. She...
