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In one sense, the story of Lovenia Deconge Watson (b. 1933) is the story of thousands of bright young Black women, born in the South in...

In the 1880s, Southern California agriculture was in a state of crisis. The wheat which had been long the basis of its prosperity was...

“Even though she’ll be a spinster, she’ll be able to support herself.” These lines, uttered in 1948, were the gateway to a professional...

It is almost impossible to overstate the importance of rice for the human species.  More than a fifth of all the calories consumed by...

The story of the women’s medical movement in India is, when told at all, generally centered upon its British founding figures - Ida...