Michelle Browder wants to make sure Feb. 28 is etched in history-- a day that will be steeped in truth and shrouded in respect. The date is significant to Browder. Over the years, the artist and ...

Women gardening at the Indiana Women’s Prison Photo:Courtesy of book authors Some 150 years ago, a group of Quaker women reformers in Indiana founded the country’s first women’s prison—a solution, ...

Pieced together from a mixture of recycled copper, brass and bronze metals and standing nearly 15 feet tall, a new monument in Montgomery, Alabama, honors the legacy of three enslaved women whose ...

Anarcha was in labor for 72 hours when Dr. J. Marion Sims went to her bedside to help deliver her baby on the Westscott Plantation located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was a summer day in June of 1845.

There's one name Dr. Kameelah Phillips, an OB-GYN at Calla Women's Health in New York City, would prefer not to use in her operating room: Sims. Depending on the context, the word can mean either a ...

Nao Bustamante and Wendy Kline explore the racist, sexist, would-be-very-illegal-today methods through which we’ve come to understand the medical field. Nao Bustamante, "The Eye That Cries From Both ...

After unveiling her groundbreaking monument last Mother’s Day, artist Michelle Browder is expanding upon her work around the “Mothers of Gynecology,” with the opening of a museum and clinic built in ...

The Department of Surgery continues its “Beyond the Knife” series focused on surgery’s role in fighting systemic racism with its second annual Anti-Racism and Health Equity event on Feb. 10. Deirdre ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo’s Department of Surgery continues its “Beyond the Knife” series focused on surgery’s role in fighting systemic racism with its second annual Anti-Racism and ...

The cast of “Behind The Sheet.” Pictured here are Nia Calloway, Naomi Lorrain, Cristina Pitter, Joel Ripka, and Stephen James Anthony. Credit: Jeremy Daniel Nineteenth-century physician J. Marion Sims ...

A sallow light rises over the land at the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most celebrated movies of the 20th century. Stanley Kubrick’s shot pulls in on a band of furry man-apes gathering ...