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Erie's 40 Under 40: Class of 2020 Erie Organizers Call for Charges Against Protestors to Be Dropped Local activist group offers questionnaire to decision-makers regarding proposed IRG plant SeaWolves Slide Into 2021 With More Certainty Related Articles by Kimberly Firestine11 hours ago The federal charges stem from May 30 events in Erie Erie County Sees 283 New COVID-19 Cases This Week by Nick Warren3/31/2021, 4:27 PM 43 new cases reported today, with three additional deaths this week Schember Receives LGBTQ+ Community Endorsement by Matt Swanseger3/29/2021, 9:00 AM LGBTQ+ leaders officially ...

On Books – Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne Bruce Weber Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex, by Katherine Manthorne (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020). 352 pp., color and b/w illus. Art historian Katherine E. Manthorne has written a welcome addition to recent studies devoted to American women artists and cultural figures of the past two centuries. The flurry of such publications is especially noteworthy as we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the...

Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America December 14, 2020 In 1993, the New York City Fire Department issued a curious order, namely that no pictures could be taken of Brenda Berkman, a 15-year veteran of the force, on or off duty, inside or outside a firehouse. This proved to be one last gasp in the protest against women in what had been an all-male preserve for the department’s 117-year history. The fight had started much earlier. In 1971, Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson issued an order calling on all federal contractors to take affirmative action to e...

CAMBRIDGE — Dorchester Center for the Arts will host a special exhibition on the centennial of women’s suffrage in the U.S. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, a poster exhibition from the Smithsonian, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and explores the complexity of the women’s suffrage movement and the relevance of this history to Americans’ lives today. The poster exhibition is presented courtesy of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative and will be on view through Dec. 19. The story of women’s suffrage is a story...