Homebound Harlingen residents can now get a COVID-19 vaccine at home. Details here: http://www.myharlingen.us/page/article/1416 Source

Day 29 of Women’s Herstory month a self made woman and Latina at a high government post: Romana Acosta Bañuelos Before her name was printed on paper currency notes as the treasurer of the United States, Romana Acosta Bañuelos had been deported to Mexico as a child in the early 1930s, only to [...]

Day 28 of Women’s Herstory month- a disability rights activist: Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. She lost her sight and hearing after a bout of illness at the age of nineteen months. She then communicated primarily using [...]

For the 27th day of Women’s History Month, an accomplished politician and role model: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to [...]

March 26 of Women’s Herstory month someone new to their field: Mary Anning (1799-1847) was born and raised near the cliffs of Lyme Regis in southwestern England; the rocky outcrops near her home were teeming with Jurassic fossils. She taught herself to recognize, excavate and prepare these relics when the field of paleontology [...]

Day 25 of Women’s Herstory month- the original Queen of soul : Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan. She eventually ventured [...]

Information for another large COVID-19 vaccination clinic (in Harlingen). City of Harlingen, Texas Source

For March 24 of Women’s Herstory month a working woman who posed for an iconic picture: The real Rosie the Riveter was a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley. She was an American woman identified as the model for Rosie, the war worker of 1940s popular culture who became a feminist touchstone in [...]