A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• American Academy of Pediatrics supports same-sex marriage.
• A new film documents Black Power and Feminism.
• The British women who voted before it was legal.
• Guitar production continued during WWII – thanks to women.
• Newly-found  Oscar Wilde letter.
• One step closer to 3-person IVF.
• America’s forgotten black cowboys.
• Greta Garbo’s really disgusting diet plan.
• Obesity in 1950s America – A Life magazine pictorial.
• The unluckiest little mining town in the West?
• Kenya pulls controversial condom ad.
• Bioethics panel has a huge issue with testing Anthrax vaccine on children.
• North Carolina’s claim, “First in Flight,” is now in doubt.
• 1950s Guidelines for judging beauty contestants (including charts!).
• New online project for marking slave burial sites.
• And . . . just for fun!