True Crime and Girls: Jayme Closs

Feb 20, 2019 | 5 comments

Jayme Closs, shortly after escaping her captor. Photo by Jennifer Smith. Statistically speaking, if kidnap victims are not found within the first 72 hours, the likelihood of finding them is almost zero. Jayme Closs defied these odds. In October 2018, an intruder broke...

Musical Gals: Florence Price

Nov 20, 2017

Music Period: 20th Century and beyond Location: America Claim to Fame: Having her Symphony in E minor performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an all-male orchestra. Florence Price was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to an African-American middle class...

Election 2016: Heartbroken, but trying to be hopeful

Nov 14, 2016 | 1 comment

It’s November 9, 2016, just before Hillary Clinton is about to give her concession speech in New York City. I haven’t cried for a whole 50 minutes, which is a record and a brief reprieve from the throbbing headache and puffy eyes...

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