Series: Underground Groundbreakers of Today The 73rd House District of Florida, encompassing Manatee and Sarasota Counties in central Florida, has only had one Democratic representative
Category: Underground Groundbreakers
Vigie Ramos Rios, manager of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for Congress
Series: Underground Groundbreakers of Today NOTE: After taking a hiatus for a while to decide the best direction for Underground Groundbreakers, I have decided to
Always a Groundbreaker at Heart: Frank Robinson, 1935-2019
Lovers of baseball, particularly ones of a certain age, were saddened on Thursday to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer and manager Frank
Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to Congress
Series: Groundbreakers in History “I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the
Buck O’Neil, first black coach in Major League Baseball
Series: Groundbreakers in History “People say baseball’s dead. Baseball doesn’t die. People die. Baseball lives on.” Continuing my baseball theme of this blog started with
Florence Price, first African American female composer to have a piece debuted by a major American symphony
Series: Groundbreakers in History “Unfortunately the work of a woman composer is preconceived by many to be light, froth, lacking in depth, logic and virility.
Celebrating the Women Elected to Congress in 2018
A Special Groundbreakers Post; Groundbreakers of Today If you’re in the US (and even if you’re not), you may have heard that we had midterm
Madeleine Kunin, first Jewish and female governor of Vermont
Series: Groundbreakers in History “As a feminist, an immigrant, and a Jew, I was perhaps too different from the average Vermont voter, yet it was
Jeannette Rankin, First Woman Elected to Congress
Series: Groundbreakers in History “I may be the First woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.” When you think of “women’s firsts,”
Donald White & the Lack of Black/Latino Musicians in American Orchestras
Series: Groundbreakers in History Even if you were not steeped in classical music for most of your life as I was, you have probably heard