For this year’s annualWomen Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Waxahatchee‘s Katie Crutchfield talks about her lifelong admiration for Fiona Apple‘s music, and how she helped inspire Waxahatchee’s …
Read More »How Kim Ng Broke Baseball's Glass Ceiling
Starting in the early 2000s, sports pundits began predicting that, any moment now, Kim Ng would become the first female general manager in Major League Baseball.They floated the ideain 2005, when she interviewed for the job with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It came up againin 2009, when she was considered …
Read More »Journalist Jemele Hill Speaks Truth to Power
It is almost impossible to talk about Jemele Hill today without talking about Donald Trump. Which is the opposite of how Jemele Hill would have it, understandably. “If the lead line in my obituary is ‘She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,’ I will see my life …
Read More »The First Time: Chef Dominique Crenn
Dominique Crenn, the first American woman to receive three Michelin stars, has a long history of upending the status quo. In our signature video franchise “The First Time,” the French-born chef looks back on the earliest glimpse of the gutsiness that would carry her to the top of a grueling, …
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