On December 10, the National Women’s Hall of Fame (NWHF) hosted its first Virtual Induction Series. A lack of nominations of Black women and other women of color promoted the virtual series.

Inducted in December were the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin and Nobel laureate and “Beloved” author Toni Morrison.  Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were widely used in biomedical research; Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to travel to both the North and South Poles; and civil rights activists Barbara Rose Johns Powell and Mary Church Terrell.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame was founded in 1969 in Seneca Falls, the site of the first women’s rights convention. As part of the programming, the NWAF produced a web page with the biographies of the inductees and an electronic program booklet.