In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women's businesses - from small local concerns to financial empires - offered women independence, supported their families, and supplied essential goods and services to their communities and the world. They also contributed to much-needed legal and social change and set the stage for the female entrepreneurs who would come later. All this was accomplished despite immense financial barriers, an inequitable...
The "Rumble in the Jungle," a momentous boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, took place on this day in 1974. Fourteen years earlier (almost to the day), Ali, then named Cassius Clay, won his first professional fight. Charismatic and controversial, bombastic and bodacious, Ali is widely considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time—not to mention a serious influencer.