The Bootlegging, Blues Singing Star of 1930s Prison Radio
[ad_1] Filed 1:00 p.m. EDT 04.12.2026 Hattie Ellis was poised for post-prison fame. Then she encountered shotcallers who didn’t value her voice. This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by…
Statistics show up to 85% of solo travellers are women. So, …
[ad_1] 55 Writer and long-distance cyclist Simon Parker has travelled solo to more than 100 countries. He talks to fellow male solo travellers about why more men don’t do the same. ‘Hey, you’re not that guy we just saw on the freeway, are you?’ asked a…
Doulas Are New Go-To For Pregnant Women As Access Grows
[ad_1] by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman March 29, 2026 Research has also shown the inclusion of doulas can help Medicaid-covered women have healthier births. The growing popularity of doulas has made women of all tax brackets get the holistic care they need during…
Hear Seven Hours of Women Making Electronic Music (1938-2014…
[ad_1] Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Delia Derbyshire.” Derbyshire—who…
Research shows older women are winning more Oscars – here’s …
[ad_1] The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood’s top 100 films last year, there were only four women aged 45 plus who featured as a lead or co-lead, and one was a voice character in an animation: Ginnifer Goodwin in…
The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists W…
[ad_1] It doesn’t take too long a look at the almost surrealistically clean-lined buildings of Walter Gropius to get the impression that the man wanted to usher in a new world, especially when you consider that many of them went up before…
Landscapes by British Women Artists at the Courtauld » Art &…
[ad_1] From 28 January to 20 May 2026, the Courtauld Gallery presents the exhibition “A View of One’s Own: Landscapes by British Women Artists, 1760-1860” Source: The Courtauld. Image: Fanny Blake: “A rainbow over Patterdale Church, Cumbria”, 1849. Photo…
At a Federal Prison in Texas, Women Say Dialysis Is Killing …
[ad_1] Evangelina Perez lost count of the number of times her mother, Martha Perez, called her from federal prison, gasping for breath because she had missed dialysis treatments for her kidney failure. At 59, Martha Perez also had diabetes and congestive…
Monsters Among Us: Renal Wise Jr. killed 3 women, all connec…
[ad_1] Posted on September 22, 2025 by mylifeofcrime VictimsAlina Casteleiro, 31 [12/22/1992]Nicole Paquette, [12/22/1992]Mary Ella Shoupe, 58 [2000] DNA Test Leads to Charges in 1992 KillingsMan Gets Life in Murders of 3 WomenPhotos: Homicides Solved…
Why Women, Especially Mothers, Often Can’t Get Addiction Tre…
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. April Lee was still functional in her opioid addiction, still…