by danarubin | May 23, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ Today, May 23, is Deborah Sampson Day, honoring the remarkable exploits of a gender-twisting female Revolutionary War hero and trailblazing public speaker. On this day in 1782, disguised as a man, Sampson was mustered into the Fourth Massachusetts...
by danarubin | May 5, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ At long last, the great Ida B. Wells has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize. The board of the Pulitzer has given a special posthumous citation to the women’s rights activist, investigative journalist and newspaper editor — noting “her outstanding...
by danarubin | Apr 28, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ In a recent episode of “Mrs. America” on FX/Hulu, we’re taken into one of Florynce Kennedy’s legendary “Sundays at Flo’s” — a weekly gathering of feminists and black rights activists at her Midtown Manhattan...
by danarubin | Apr 20, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ A new biography puts a spotlight on the fearless, often controversial, always outspoken Catholic journalist and activist Dorothy Day. In Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century, John Loughery and Blyth Randolph depict a champion for...
by danarubin | Apr 17, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ “These are real women, and it was a real fight, says Uzo Aduba, the actress who plays Shirley Chisholm in the new FX series “Mrs. America,” about the movement to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Shirley Chisholm was central to that...
by danarubin | Apr 17, 2020 | Leadership, Women Leaders, Women's Issues
by Dana Rubin_____ [This piece originally appeared on April 7, 2020 on Evoke.org — an online community hosted by Melinda Gates] I’m a longtime speech coach, and in the past few years, I’ve made a discovery: most collections of the greatest speeches in history include...
