An award-winning singer, actress, director, composer, and philanthropist. The highest-selling female recording artist of all time and the most decorated Read more...

Singer, actress, record producer, and songwriter. The founding member and lead singer of Supreme – America’s most successful vocal group. Read more...

A French-American artist; known for her monumental abstract installations. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was born in Paris, France, where her parents Read more...

Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, and Humanitarian. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium. Her mother was a Dutch baroness, Read more...

A cultural anthropologist and a writer; considered one of the most influential anthropologists in history. Margaret Mead was born in Read more...

One of the first American women sculptors. Famous for creating the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, NYC. Emma Stebbins was Read more...

An anthropologist, folklorist, and author. One of the dominant female figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston was born Read more...

A poet, journalist, playwright, and political activist. Associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Alice Ruth Moore was born Read more...

A Playwright, director, producer, and actress. The first woman in NYC to have a license to drive a motorcycle, the Read more...

A nurse, social reformer, suffragist, peace and civil rights activist. The founder of the Henry Street Settlement and several health Read more...