Louis Jones is a keeper— working as a Field Archivist at the Reuther Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, he cares for the largest labor archive in North America. Home to numerous union and labor collections from around the country, the Reuther Library also actively collects material documenting Detroit’s civil rights movement, women’s struggles in the workplace, the LGBTQ Archive of Detroit and more.

On December 21, 2025, activist and trailblazer Betty Reid Soskin passed away in Richmond, California. She was 104. Over the years we’ve chronicled Betty’s remarkable story…

They don’t make ’em like Marion Cunningham these days. Food writer, home cook, Fannie Farmer’s new incarnation, James Beard’s sidekick, wizard of waffles. Marion was a treasured friend of The Kitchen Sisters, and in 2003, we sat down with her and recorded a long conversation. We’ve been digging through our archive of late looking for people and stories that inspire, that illuminate, that cut a new path and nourish the soul. Marion’s story ticks all those boxes and more.

Deep thanks to all of you who support the work of The Kitchen Sisters. Without your collaboration and contributions, our stories, internship, and mentoring program would not be possible.

In the 1950s, a group of Montgomery, Alabama women baked goods to help fund the Montgomery bus boycott. Known as the Club from Nowhere the group was led by Georgia Gilmore, one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights era.

Deep thanks to all of you who support the work of The Kitchen Sisters. Without your collaboration and contributions, our stories, internship, and mentoring program would not be possible.

Throughout the islands and out of way places in Scotland — along the rural roads, at the end of driveways, out on their own with no house nearby — you’ll find eggs, fresh baked bread, homemade jams, cabbage, cauliflower, scones, Victoria Sponge Cake, hand-knitted hats, you name it. If someone can make it, bake it, grow it, sew it, it may turn up for sale in an “Honesty Box.”