Grinnell's first Black woman graduate Edith Renfrow Smith dies at 111

Edith Renfrow Smith, a supercentenarian born the granddaughter of slaves and who lived through the administrations of 19 U.S.
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Fridah Mokaya: Kenyan who became the first Black woman to earn a PhD in nuclear physics

Kenyan scientist Fridah Mokaya made history as the first black woman to earn a PhD in Nuclear Physics from the University of ...
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Sadie T.M. Alexander, first Black woman in the US to receive a PhD, to be honored with statue in Philadelphia

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a woman of many firsts, including being the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the first Black woman to earn a PhD in ...
Nature

Black women on the academic tightrope: four scholars weigh in

Malika Jeffries-EL is an organic chemist and senior associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Monica R. McLemore is director of the ...
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'Moving to the top': 17 women graduate from Sacramento-based job-readiness program

LIVES AROUND. THAT’S THE GOAL OF A SPECIAL PROGRAM AIMED AT HELPING HOMELESS WOMEN GET JOBS. KCRA 3’S LISA GONZALES WAS THERE FOR TODAY’S BIG GRADUATION. CARLY RUGGIERO. VERY BIG DAY. VERY BIG DAY FOR ...