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Marquis Who s Who Takes a Fresh Look at STEM to Recognize American Influencers and Innovators for the May Installment of the Maker s List
Marquis also recognizes Asian American and Pacific Island Americans of influence in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month
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UNIONDALE, N.Y., May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Marquis Who s Who (MWW), the world s leading biographical publisher, has released the May edition of the Maker s List to recognize
Influencers and
Innovators in STEM. For this month s list, MWW has reimagined the traditional definition of STEM to highlight Science, Technology, Education and Medicine. The Maker s List features some of the most influential individuals in their respective fields, selected from thousands of professionals across the country. Spearheaded by
Discuss women’s history and current obstacles at these Eastern Michigan University events
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Posted Mar 06, 2021
A banner bears the logo and motto of Eastern Michigan University outside Pierce Hall on Eastern Michigan University s campus in Ypsilanti on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.Jacob Hamilton/MLive.com
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YPSILANTI, MI Celebrate women’s history with Eastern Michigan University during virtual events honoring March as Women’s History Month.
EMU is offering a number of virtual open-to-the-public events to celebrate and reflect upon women’s history, officials said.
Topics from women’s rights activists and professors discuss how COVID-19 has impacted women and how women of color have broken barriers.
<p>Historian Martha S. Jones traces the lineage of Black History Month from a day promoted by educator Mary Church Terrell to honor Frederick Douglass, through the work of Carter G. Woodson to promote knowledge of Black history, to the present. </p>
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How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now
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Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States for close to 100 years. But what is it, exactly, and how did it begin?
In the years after Reconstruction, campaigning for the importance of Black history and doing the scholarly work of creating the canon was a cornerstone of civil rights work for leaders like Carter G. Woodson. Martha Jones, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, explained: “These are men [like Woodson] who were trained formally and credentialed in the ways that all intellectuals and thought leaders of the early 20th century were trained at Harvard and places like that. But