Women’s History Month Part 5: Ursula M. Burns: Engineer. Executive. The First. – Footnotes
EBSCO Information Services. Research Starters: Ursula Burns Biography. Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 17, 2026. https://ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/ursula-burns. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ursula Burns: American Business Executive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Accessed March 17, 2026. https://britannica.com/money/Ursula-Burns. BecomingX. Ursula Burns: Leadership and Resilience Story. BecomingX Foundation. Accessed March 17, 2026. https://becomingx.com/films/ursula-burns. BecomingX. Ursula Burns: Leadership and Resilience Story. BecomingX Foundation. Accessed March 17, 2026. https://becomingx.com/films/ursula-burns. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Ursula Burns: American Business Executive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Accessed […]
Women’s History Month Part 5: Ursula M. Burns: Engineer. Executive. The First.
Ursula M. Burns was born on September 20, 1958, in New York City, and she grew up in the Baruch Houses — a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where Jewish immigrants, Puerto Ricans, and African Americans occupied the same buildings, bound together by the single common factor that Burns herself […]
Women’s History Month Part 4: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: The Leadership That Helped Rebuild Liberia
History often places extraordinary responsibilities on leaders at the most difficult moments. For Liberia, that moment arrived in the early 2000s after years of violent civil conflict had devastated the nation’s economy, infrastructure, and political institutions. Rebuilding the country required more than policy reforms—it required steady leadership capable of restoring public confidence and guiding a […]
Women’s History Month Part 4: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: The Leadership That Helped Rebuild Liberia – Footnotes
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2011/johnson_sirleaf/biographical/ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ellen-Johnson-Sirleaf The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Laureates. The Nobel Peace Prize. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/laureates/2011 Walsh, Colleen. Sirleaf Wins Nobel Peace Prize. Harvard Gazette. Retrieved March 13, 2026 from https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/10/sirleaf-wins-nobel-peace-prize/ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Biography. United Nations Migration Conference. Retrieved March […]
Women’s History Month Part 3: Lisa Rice: The Woman Who Has Been Dismantling Redlining One Case at a Time
In 1963, while waiting for her daughter to be born, Lisa Rice’s mother decided she wanted to buy a home. She selected Sylvania — a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, that was at the time entirely white. She called a real estate agent. The agent told her that she could not be shown a home in […]
Women’s History Month Part 2: Lisa Rice: The Woman Who Has Been Dismantling Redlining One Case at a Time – Footnotes
NerdWallet. “The Black Homeownership Gap: Lisa Rice on Systemic Barriers.” NerdWallet, Inc. Accessed March 17, 2026. https://nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/the-black-homeownership-gap-lisa-rice. HAR.com. “The Black Homeownership Gap: A Fair Housing Leader’s Solutions.” Houston Association of Realtors. Accessed March 17, 2026. https://har.com/blog_91680_the-black-homeownership-gap-a-fair-housing-leaders-solutions. Justice For All Campaign. “Access to Justice Awards: Lisa Rice Keynote Speaker Profile.” Accessed March 17, 2026. https://justiceforallcampaign.org/access-to-justice-awards/rice-keynotespeaker. Brookings Institution. “Lisa Rice: […]
Women’s History Month Part 2: Graça Machel: A Lifelong Advocate for Children, Education, and Social Progress – Footnotes
Graça Machel. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gra%C3%A7a_Machel Graça Machel | Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://mo.ibrahim.foundation/about-us/prize-committee/graca-machel About Us – Graça Machel Trust. GraçaMachelTrust.org. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://gracamacheltrust.org/about-us/ Graça Machel. UN Office for Partnerships. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://unpartnerships.un.org/graca-machel (UN Office for Partnerships) The Graça Machel Trust – Official Work. GraçaMachelTrust.org. Retrieved March 14, 2026 […]
Women’s History Month Part 2: Graça Machel: A Lifelong Advocate for Children, Education, and Social Progress
From the early years of Mozambique’s independence to the global stage of humanitarian advocacy, Graça Machel’s life work has centered on protecting the rights of children and expanding opportunities for communities that have historically been overlooked. Her voice has shaped conversations about education, social justice, and child welfare across Africa and around the world. Machel’s […]
Women’s History Month 2026 Part 1: Maggie Lena Walker
MAGGIE LENA WALKER Banker. Entrepreneur. Richmond, Virginia | 1864 – 1934 | Banking, Finance & Black Economic Self-Determination By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA | The Power Is Now Media WHO SHE WAS, IN FULL There is a house on Leigh Street in Richmond, Virginia, that the National Park Service now maintains as a historic site. […]
Black History Month Part 10: We Were Never Less: The Defiant Ascent Of Black America: The Celebration and the Reckoning
The Celebration and the Reckoning By Eric Lawrence Frazier, MBA Welcome to Part Ten — the final essay of a ten-part series. We begin with The Crossing. The laboratory of race science. The navigation strategies of Frederick Douglass. The theological weapon of the slaveholder’s Bible. The systematic destruction of Reconstruction. The federal architecture of the […]
