Edith Renfrow Smith, the granddaughter of slaves, died at the age of 111. In 1937, she became the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa. Grinnell College honored her by awarding ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by abolitionist John ...

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Edith Shadd Green, retired English department head at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, died of pneumonia complications Oct. 23 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Pikesville resident was 82. Born ...

Seeing Archie deal with the death of his wife, Edith Bunker, in the All in the Family spinoff, Archie Bunker's Place, changed how some fans perceived the character In real life, actress Jean Stapleton ...

The year was 1893, when a tragedy shook the foundations of Edith Stein’s family. Her mother, Auguste Stein, had given birth to 11 children, with four dying in infancy. When Edith, the youngest child, ...

NPR’s top editor and acting chief content officer is leaving the organization later this year — just days after Congress axed its federal funding. Edith Chapin told staffers Tuesday that she is ...

NPR’s top editor, Edith Chapin, is leaving the company later this year. Chapin, who is serving as acting Chief Content Officer along with being a senior vice president and NPR’s editor-in-chief, is ...

Edith Chapin, the top editor at NPR, is leaving the public media outlet at the end of the year. The move marks a major change ahead of the public broadcaster’s next chapter, without the federal ...

Edith Chapin, who is also acting chief content officer, has been editor in chief of the public radio network since 2023. By Benjamin Mullin Edith Chapin, the top editor and acting chief content ...

Edith Smith served as a police officer in Grantham between 1915 and 1918 She paved the way for thousands of female police officers - but how did Edith Smith navigate such a male dominated profession ...

At Edith’s Sandwich Counter, which has a tiny take-out shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that opened in 2020 and then opened its second store in December 2024 in the West Village off of Sheridan Square, ...