Vintage photos show what life looked like in the 1920s

Vintage photos show what life looked like in the 1920s

Women at a café in Paris, circa 1920.Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesLife in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments.Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look.The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art created by Black Americans.The Roaring Twenties — now 100 years ago — looked vastly different than our world today.Coming after a war-torn decade where military efforts redefined women's …

A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, sufferers had no remedy for leprosy’s debilitating symptoms or its social stigma.This young scientist, Alice Ball, laid fundamental groundwork for the first effective leprosy treatment globally. But her legacy still prompts conversations about the margi…