Here are seven easy ways to make a big difference in the lives of daughters, sisters, and mothers around the world — and right in our own neighborhoods. 1. Provide the ticket to a better life: clean water. Did you know that instead of attending class, girls and women around the world spend 200 million hours each day getting water that is often…
There’s a famous photo of Annie Easley. She’s standing next to a huge control panel with dials, lights, buttons from floor to ceiling. She looks like a character in a movie, commanding a fearless space mission. But it’s real: it was taken in 1981 in the Central Control Room of NASA’s Lewis Engine Research Building in Cleveland, Ohio, as part…
PARTNERSHIP OF EQUALS: SHARING VALUES, SHARING PROSPERITY, Cascais, Portugal from July 4-5, 2019. The EurAfrican Forum exists to explore and promote the power of diasporas as a connecting force between cities, regions, and continents, between cultures, companies, and people. It is an action-oriented gathering of leaders that aims to foster stronger collaboration between Europe and Africa to promote a shared…
The Quiet Power of Viola Davis “This was the year the world realized women’s stories deserve to be seen and heard,” Viola Davis has made that her mission for three decades. BY: CARVELL WALLACE In the three-decades-long journey to this moment, Davis, 53, has played so many parts she says she can’t remember them all. If there is a woman with…
Women in Information Technology (WIT), an initiative launched by New York University (NYU), aims to counter the scarcity of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields of study and in the technology industry in general. According to a 2016 Bureau of Labor Statistics report, women comprised just 18% of computer and information sciences bachelor’s degree recipients in the U.S.…
