20th century

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The Black librarian who rewrote the rules of power, gender and passing as White

The Conversation - February 12, 2025

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the Estate...

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Nina Otero-Warren – Latina champion of women’s voting rights and education in New Mexico – now graces US quarters

The Conversation - March 9, 2023

A new U.S. quarter shows Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools....

Arts and Culture

Sci-fi books for young readers often omit children of color from the future

The Conversation - December 3, 2022

by Emily Midkiff, University of North Dakota While visiting an elementary school library in 2016 to count the fantasy books for a graduate class on...

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