A collage of Sameera Moussa photographs She once declared she’d make nuclear treatment “as cheap and available as Aspirin” — and she meant it. Sameera Moussa wasn’t just a brilliant physicist; she was a visionary who believed atomic energy could heal rather than harm. At a time when the world was still reeling from the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and when few women, let alone Arab women, were seen in scientific laboratories, Moussa broke through barrier after barri

James Jamerson in the studio There are bass players, and then there’s James Jamerson. You might not know his name off the top of your head, but chances are you’ve danced, swayed, or sobbed to his work. From the irresistible snap of “I Was Made to Love Her” to the bottomless groove of “What’s Going On,” Jamerson’s playing formed the foundation of the Motown sound, one of the most enduring forces in 20th-century popular music. He was, in many ways, the secret sauce. The glue. T

On a cold January evening in 1958, an open cornfield near a quiet pond in Robeson County, North Carolina, became the unlikely stage for one of the most remarkable local acts of defiance against the Ku Klux Klan in American history. Known variously as the Battle of Hayes Pond, the Battle of Maxton Field or simply the Maxton Riot, this clash did not spring from any grandly orchestrated civil rights campaign but from a fiercely local resolve by the Lumbee people to defend their