Star Jones & Marquis Who s Who Release the Women Luminaries List
58 Honorees are Spotlighted for Women s History Month
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UNIONDALE, N.Y., March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In honor of Women s History Month, Marquis Who s Who (MWW), the world s leading biographical publisher for over 120 years, has released its Women Luminaries list for 2021 as a part of their Maker s List Series. The series is spearheaded by MWW CEO Erica Lee and American lawyer, award-winning media personality, and women s and diversity advocate, Star Jones, who serves as the executive editor of the Maker’s Lists. The Women Luminaries list features 58 honorees, representative of the 58 facets of a marquise diamond.
Amanda Gorman at the Biden inauguration: “O sing, sweet lucre,” or, The poet wore Prada
Gorman rose from almost total obscurity to the cover of
Time magazine (personifying “The Black Renaissance”) in the space of a single month. On January 1, nobody outside a relative handful of people even knew who she was.
Amanda Gorman at the Biden inauguration, January 20, 2021 (Photo credit–Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Gorman was named the first National Youth Poet Laureate of the US in 2017 and has now performed two high-profile recitations. As noted, she delivered “The Hill We Climb” at the Biden inauguration. Her follow-up performance of “Chorus of the Captains” at the Super Bowl on February 7 was no less celebrated, and no less banal. Affixing firmly the establishment seal of approval, Gorman was interviewed in
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In Megan O Neill s English classes at Saint Viator High School, students are just as likely to study classics like The Scarlet Letter as they are Amanda Gorman s The Hill We Climb.
It s where she weaves in the past with the present, and no daily lesson plan is ever the same.
I think there s always lessons that can be learned from these classics, as long as you re keeping current events in mind, said O Neill, who started a Literary Heroines course at the Arlington Heights Catholic high school in the fall. If you just keep those books in the 1920s or 1600s, I don t think students are going to get as much out of it. But if you re bringing those events from those historical time periods and the values of those time periods, and comparing and contrasting them to present day and what students are actually going through today, that s what brings more merit.
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