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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead made her career as America's most famous anthropologist with the 1928 publication of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She was a graduate of Barnard College, where she studied…

Ntozake Shange Biography

Ntozake ShangewriterBorn: 10/18/1948Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey Born Paulette Williams, she graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern…

Dorothy Height Biography

civil rights activistBorn: 3/24/1912Died: 4/20/2010Best Known as: president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) Dorothy Height helped shape and guide the…

Joan Rivers

Name at birth: Joan Alexandra MolinskyIn its 2014 obituary of Joan Rivers, The New York Times called her "the raspy loudmouth who pounced on America’s obsessions with flab, face-lifts, body hair and…

Greta Gerwig

Actress Greta Gerwig made her debut as a film director with 2017's Lady Bird (starring Saoirse Ronan) and was Oscar nominated for her script and direction. Before that, Gerwig was known as the star…

Helen Gahagan DOUGLAS, Congress, CA (1900-1980)

DOUGLAS Helen Gahagan , a Representative from California; born in Boonton, Morris County, N.J., November 25, 1900; attended the public schools, Berkeley School for Girls, Brooklyn, N.Y., Capen…

The Seven Sisters

The “seven sisters” is a group of historically women's colleges generally seen as the female equivalent of the Ivy League.Date foundedNameEnrollment1836Mount Holyoke College2,0731861Vassar College2,…

Most Expensive U.S. Colleges and Universities

The priciest diplomas in the land It's well-known that the cost of education has skyrocketed in the past two decades. But, determining exactly how much school will cost is dependent on a lot of…