Aloud Blog
April 14, 2011
April 14 is Poem in Your Pocket day, when we are all encouraged to read poems, share poems, listen to poems and, of course, carry a poem or two in our pockets. The tradition started in New York City in 2002 as a way to encourage schoolchildren to...
April 7, 2011
Wislawa Szymborska is the Poet Laureate of Poland and winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her collection Here (© 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is so wonderful that several times while reading it I wanted to jump out of my chair and......
April 4, 2011
April is National Poetry month, and to celebrate we'll be posting works by contemporary women poets. Today we kick things off with the poem Challenger by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
An associate professor of English at Cornell University, where she...
March 29, 2011
The Daily Beast’s Women in the World Summit is an invitation-only event that gathers together powerful women from many fields for three days of discussion and celebration. Speakers and featured guests at the 2011 summit held in mid-March included U....
March 28, 2011
How far would you be willing to go to start your journalism career? NYWICI member Erica Ayisi went all the way to Ghana. Here's the first in a series of posts about life as a broadcast journalist in Africa.
Working in Ghana is something I never,...
March 26, 2011
Today Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for national office on a major party ticket, died at age 75 after a long battle with multiple myeloma. We first published the profile below on March 23, 2010 for Women's History Month. The author,...
March 20, 2011
How far would you be willing to go to start your journalism career? NYWICI member Erica Ayisi went all the way to Ghana. Here's the first in a series of posts about life as a broadcast journalist in Africa.
Working in Ghana is something I never,...
March 20, 2011
The name Ruth Gruber is not likely on the minds of many of today’s leading female journalists. But she helped pave the way for them early on.
Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth was one of five children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. She...
March 20, 2011
Last month the world was shocked by CBS Correspondent Lara Logan’s brutal beating and sexual assault in Tahrir Square during celebrations following the resignation of then-President Hosni Mubarak. Eman Kassem Sliman, an Arab-Israeli news broadcaster...
March 6, 2011
March is Women’s History Month. Today we celebrate the achievements of Dr. Alexa Irene Canady, the first woman and first African-American neurosurgeon in the U.S.
The only daughter of Hortense and Clinton Canady, Jr., Alexa Irene Canady had great...
March 6, 2011
March is Women's History Month. We continue our profiles of inspiring women with the story of Muriel Gardiner — feminist, rulebreaker, author, psychoanalyst and World War II resistance fighter.
When Helen Muriel Morris entered the world on November...
March 2, 2011
March is Women's History Month, and Aloud will be celebrating with profiles of women who made their mark on history in ways we can all be thankful for. First up: journalist Sara Payson Willis.
“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”...
February 20, 2011
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” That 1969 Neil Armstrong quote is certainly associated with space exploration, but even before that actress Nichelle Nichols was making all kinds of history in space — sort of. Portraying Lt....
February 13, 2011
As 2010 ended, marketing professionals grappled with questions about the potential of green marketing campaigns. Does the public have eco-fatigue? Will forthcoming government rules quash future green campaigns? Is green marketing truly the best way...
February 12, 2011
Throughout February, Aloud will celebrate Black History Month with profiles of history-making African-American women. Here, we profile NPR foreign correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Charlayne is pictured at right with Wisconsin Public Radio's...