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Word Weavers: Alice Walker
Season 6 Episode 171
Alice Walker (1944-present) is novelist, poet and essayist, best known for her novel The Color Purple, published in 1982, which won the Pulitzer Priz…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Word Weavers: Sylvia Wright
Season 6 Episode 170
Sylvia Wright (c. 1916-1981) was a writer and humorist who coined the term “Mondegreen,” a noun used to describe the result of mishearing a word for …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Word Weavers: Toni Morrison
Season 6 Episode 169
Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was a groundbreaking writer and the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Her works, i…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Cultivators: Janaki Ammal
Season 6 Episode 168
E. K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984) was a botanist and cytogenecist, referred to as India’s first woman botanist. She gained expertise in crossbreeding hy…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cultivators: Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores
Season 6 Episode 167
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (1971-2016) was a Honduran environmental activist who spent decades leading various land and water struggles in western H…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cultivators: Rahibai Soma Popere
Season 6 Episode 166
Rahibai Soma Popere (1964 - present) is an Indian farmer known for her work preserving indigenous seed varieties and promoting sustainable agricultur…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cultivators: Aino Henssen
Season 6 Episode 165
Aino Henssen (1925-2011) was a globally recognized lichenologist. Her interest in the organism advanced the study and understanding of lichen and act…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cultivators: Margaretta Morris and Elizabeth Carrington Morris
Season 6 Episode 164
Margaretta Morris (1797-1867) and Elizabeth Carrington Morris (1795-1865) were sisters from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who worked in botany, entomolo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Cultivators: Margaret S. Collins
Season 6 Episode 167
Margaret S. Collins (1922-1996) was a pioneering entomologist and civil rights activist, known for being the first African American woman to earn a P…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Cultivators: Chen Shu
Season 6 Episode 166
Ch’en Shu (1660–1736) was a Chinese painter from the Qing dynasty, known for her exquisite flower-and-bird paintings that blended precision with deli…
11 months, 4 weeks ago