In 1976 Melissa Ludtke was the only woman working as a full-time baseball reporter. She tried to nicely integrate herself into the institution of baseball, but when the commissioner banned her from a stadium for entering the locker room, she wound up the plaintiff in a discrimination suit that...

Reverend Roslyn Bouier runs one of the largest food pantries in Detroit. Her work feeding hundreds of hungry folks in Detroit every month is profiled in an upcoming episode of The Fifty One.  For Bearcat, we dig into Rev. Roslyn's general approach to community service and her push back against...

She helped start NOW, then left to start The Feminist Party, which got Shirley Chisholm elected to Congress. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Columbia law school. Yet, we hear precious little about Florynce "Flo" Kennedy. If you want more Flo, check out this amazing archive of her...