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Raise Us Up Out Of Minstrelsy: Sissieretta Jones And The Elevation of Black Musical Theater

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 12, 2020

RESPECT: See Jennifer Hudson As Aretha Franklin In Upcoming Biopic (Official Trailer)

wyskFebruary 12, 2020

LATEST WYSK STORIES

Film Review: ‘The Woman Who Loves Giraffes’, The Story Of Pioneer Wildlife Researcher Anne Innis Dagg

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 5, 2020

When Anne Innis headed into the Transvaal in 1956, there were no rules or set procedures for how to observe animal behavior in the wild, let alone how to do so...

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Film Trailer: Rosamund Pike Stars As Marie Sklodowska Curie In Radioactive

wyskFebruary 4, 2020

This Women's History Month, Academy Award nominated director Marjane Satrapi (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - Persepolis, 2007) brings the story of Ma...

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18 Downloadable Role Models Cards Designed To Spread Love And Inspiration This Valentine’s Day

wyskJanuary 30, 2020

"Being your friend is auto-matically the best," declares Balqees Bani Hani, one of the 18 change-makers celebrated in the just-released 2020 set of downloadabl...

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Preparing For An Unknown Tomorrow: Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan And The Saving Of The Hubble Space Telescope

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 29, 2020

This day, let us speak of a new type of hero, one whose life story is not told as a sum of new products invented and foisted upon an already choked world, but ...

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Girl Scout, Age 6, Pushes Through Fears, Challenges Daily, Determined To Sell 4,040 Boxes Of Cookies

wyskJanuary 23, 2020

Meet 6-year-old Stella Vanwhy. She joined the Girl Scouts just 5 months ago and is already a cookie entrepreneur managing her first sale and a very big goal: s...

EmpowermentGirlsInspirationScience0 Comments5 min read

Ice, Ice Lady: The Seven Expeditions Of Arctic Explorer Louise Arner Boyd

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 22, 2020

If the story of Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972) teaches us anything, it is that how you start a journey need not determine how you end it. Her first expedition ...

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Teacher To A Century: Nadia Boulanger And The Arrival Of Modern Music

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 17, 2020

For four decades sitting at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, if you were a composer of promise seeking to deepen your skill and find your voice, be you ...

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‘I Was The 14th African-American Woman Architect In The U.S.’… Meet Kathryn Tyler Prigmore

Guest ContributorJanuary 16, 2020

By byGeorge - Kathryn Tyler Prigmore was shocked to see herself in a 1985 issue of EBONY, listed as the 14th African-American woman registered to practice arch...

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Love And Butterflies: The Adventures Of Victorian Lepidopterist Margaret Fountaine

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 15, 2020

For a young English woman of respectable lineage, the 19th century offered a clear, well delineated path from birth to death, full of tradition and routine and...

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Girls

Armor… The Latest Empowering Anthem From Sara Bareilles (Video And Lyrics)

wyskDecember 5, 2018

"To all my sisters and all our friends... You make me try harder... You make me stronger... Now hand me my armor." - Sara BareillesAward...

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Documentary Spotlights Courageous Women In Aviation And Determined Girls Pursuing The Field

wyskDecember 6, 2019

"Just watch, all of you men. I'll show you what a woman can do. . . . I'll go across the country, I'll race to the Moon. . . . I'll never l...

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An Open Letter to The Google Memo Writer From Debbie Sterling, Engineer and Founder, GoldieBlox

Guest ContributorAugust 12, 2017

Debbie Sterling, founder and CEO of the innovative toy company GoldieBlox, shares this open letter to the Google engineer who wrote the cont...

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Entertainment

Wonder Woman Is Better Than Superman… Artist Matt Jones Shows Us Why

wyskNovember 16, 2016

We need zero convincing that Wonder Woman is the greatest superhero of all time, but we still love it when an artist illustrates her unparalleled badassery....

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One Of The Few: Florence Price, America’s First Black Woman Composer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 7, 2019

1888 was not an auspicious year for a black girl to be born in the United States. The Federal government had ignominiously turned tai...

HistoryMusicWomen In Music2 Comments9 min read

Move Over Google Doodle… WYSK Launches Inspiring Doodle Series With Artist Jenipher Lyn

Jenipher LynJune 23, 2014

Once a month, one of her positivity fueled doodles will be showcased on the Women You Should Know homepage. How doodle-tastic is that?!...

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Women In Science

Nobel Prize Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard And The Mysteries Of Embryo Development

Dale DeBakcsyJune 26, 2019

How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a human...

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The Nuclear Spectroscopy Of Women In Science Advocate Fay Ajzenberg-Selove

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 13, 2017

She was the nerve center for the entire world’s efforts in quantifying and understand the behavior of the light elements, and she would remain so for the next thirty-eight years....

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The Mathematical Adventures of Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 22, 2017

Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields Medal - known as the "Nobel Prize of mathematics"...

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