by Michele Genthon | Aug 23, 2019 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Earlier this year Nataki Garrett was the First Woman of Color appointed Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. A bit of history about the Festival will put the significance of this accomplishment in perspective. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival began presenting...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 31, 2018 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Many have paid tribute to Aretha Franklin but few have outlined all her achievements as a First Woman: –First Woman inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame (and second in the UK) –First Woman to have 100 titles...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 1, 2018 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
In 1931 the state of Washington named Ella Rhoads Higginson as its first poet laureate. Not its First Woman poet laureate, its first poet laureate, period. Higginson was known throughout the United States for her depictions, both in prose and poetry, of the Pacific...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 23, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Megan Ellison was the first woman producer to receive two Best Picture nominations in one year, but that was not enough to earn her a place on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. Only twenty-eight years old, Megan Ellison is...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 13, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Ruby Dee died this week. There are several numbers to note in her passing: –91, her age at death –61, the number of years she was married to Ossie Davis –30+, the number of years she survived breast cancer In addition to her many other...
