Tag: NYC Women

An award-winning singer, actress, director, composer, and philanthropist. The highest-selling female recording artist of all time, and the most decorated recording artists in history.
Category: Music.

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

A French-American artist; known for her monumental abstract installations.
Category: Arts.

Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, and Humanitarian.
Category: Theater & Cinema, Fashion & Beauty.

A cultural anthropologist and a writer; considered one of the most influential anthropologists in history.
Category: Science & Technology.

One of the first American women sculptors. Famous for creating the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, NYC.
Category: Arts.

An anthropologist, folklorist, and author. One of the dominant female figures of the Harlem Renaissance.
Category: Literature & Poetry.

A poet, journalist, playwright, and political activist. Associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Category: Literature & Poetry, Activism & Feminism.

A Playwright, director, producer, and actress. The first woman in NYC to have a license to drive a motorcycle, the first woman in NYC to have a taxi driver’s license, and the first African-American actress to appear on National Television.
Category: Theater &Amp; Cinema, Arts.

A nurse, social reformer, suffragist, peace and civil rights activist. The founder of the Henry Street Settlement and several health organizations in the US.
Category: Health, Activism & Feminism.