by Michele Genthon | Nov 28, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Last week my husband and I flew to San Francisco, into that rarefied air that can only be California. Our first stop was San Francisco, or the polyglot that columnist Herb Caen used to call Baghdad by the Bay (back when Baghdad had a romantic aura about it). As we...
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...