by Kathi Santora | Sep 4, 2024
(September 4, 2024) Upcoming MWHC artist Malynda Madzel recently reflected on her unlikely path to becoming an artist in her 70s: “My journey into abstract painting began over 50 years ago, without a paint brush or a color chart anywhere in my line of vision. I...
by Kathi Santora | May 29, 2024
(May 29, 2024) As the only daughter of Howard E. Young, Maryland’s first African American licensed pharmacist, and Estelle Hall Young, a high-profile West Baltimore community activist and suffragist, it is not surprising that N. Louise Young Spencer earned...
by Kathi Santora | Apr 9, 2024
(April 9, 2024) The Maryland ERA-affirming resolution, Senate Joint Resolution 1, passed on the House floor. The resolution clearly affirms the Legislature’s view that the federal Equal Rights Amendment is valid and should finally be published as a part of the United...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 30, 2024
(March 30, 2024) In 1948, when Phyllis Ann Wallace earned her PhD from Yale, Black people still couldn’t eat in many restaurants or try on clothes in department stores. Women, Black and White, were shut out of workplaces or treated poorly. With a stellar combination...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 29, 2024
(March 29, 2024) By the time astronaut Mary Cleave moved to Maryland in 1991 to work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, she had already flown on two Atlantis Space Shuttle missions. In those, she orbited the Earth 172 times, traveling 3.94 million miles. An...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 28, 2024
(March 28, 2024) Liriodendron, a historic mansion located in Bel Air, will host several events and an exhibition during April that recall valiant Maryland women who fought for voting rights. Visitors can view Liriodendron’s Votes for Women exhibit during...
