It’s Famous Friday!
Famous Friday: Edmonia Lewis Our country’s recent reckoning with race has ignited a great deal of interest in African American history. My family has been doing a lot of reading and recently began taking an online African American history course offered by Yale University. It is fascinating and heartbreaking to continue to learn more about the history of my ancestors on my father’s side. With that eye toward history, I decided to focus this week’s Famous Friday on an incredibly accomplished multiracial woman of history. Edmonia Lewis was born a [...]