Today I give a nod to my own heritage by highlighting one of the most badass Filipina ladies in recent history: Dr. Fe del Mundo. Fe was born in Manila (the capital city of the Philippines) in 1911, and when[…]

Born in 1805 as the daughter of a black Jamaican hotel owner and a Scottish soldier, Mary Seacole was a woman of many contradictions. She inherited an entrepreneurial spirit from her mother, and had a sharp mind for quickly seizing[…]