Growing up in Colombia, in a Catholic family with eight brothers, I had to deal with the patriarchal tradition that women had more duties at home than men.
The art of Amish quilts is highlighted in a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition running through Aug. 26 in Washington, D.C.
Belita D. Mitchell, the first Black woman ordained in the Church of the Brethren, died Feb. 10 in Mechanicsburg, Pa.