Unload your pantry and donate your cans for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Summer Food Bank Drive. Drop off locations are BB&T Banks in Roswell and Alpharetta. Contact Kendra at 678-397-0554.

Unload your pantry and donate your cans for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Summer Food Bank Drive. Drop off locations are BB&T Banks in Roswell and Alpharetta. Contact Kendra at 678-397-0554.

Unload your pantry and donate your cans for the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce Summer Food Bank Drive. Drop off locations are BB&T Banks in Roswell and Alpharetta. Contact Kendra at 678-397-0554.

It’s Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of freedom from slavery. Let freedom ring!

Allow your true colors to shine as the Atlanta Pride Celebration takes over (nearly) every block of Midtown. Browse vendors, watch the parade, and support gays and lesbians in your community. Piedmont Park. atlantapride.org.

White, Habersham, Stephens, and Rabun Counties get together for The 4th Annual Northeast Georgia Arts Tour. Artists, craftmakers and musicians gather this weekend and the 27-29. artstour.org.

Pack the cooler and curl up on the lawn as throaty powerhouse Melissa Etheridge plays Chastain Park Amphitheater. 8pm. classicchastain.com.

Allow your true colors to shine as the Atlanta Pride Celebration takes over (nearly) every block of Midtown. Browse vendors, watch the parade, and support gays and lesbians in your community. Piedmont Park. atlantapride.org.

White, Habersham, Stephens, and Rabun Counties get together for The 4th Annual Northeast Georgia Arts Tour. Artists, craftmakers and musicians gather this weekend and the 27-29. artstour.org.

Get down and dirty with the 2008 Muddy Buddy Ride and Run Series at the Georgia International Horse Park. 7:30 am. Register at muddybuddy.com.

Summer Solstice is today…say goodbye to Spring.

Allow your true colors to shine as the Atlanta Pride Celebration takes over (nearly) every block of Midtown. Browse vendors, watch the parade, and support gays and lesbians in your community. Piedmont Park. atlantapride.org.

White, Habersham, Stephens, and Rabun Counties get together for The 4th Annual Northeast Georgia Arts Tour. Artists, craftmakers and musicians gather this weekend and the 27-29. artstour.org.

Experience The Power of Progress, WBENC’s 9th Annual Women in Business Conference. Attend workshops and networking opportunities while getting to know the powerful women in today’s business world. The Georgia World Congress Center. wbenc.org.

This fun, shoe-psycho group meets tonight at Bluepointe in Buckhead from 6-8pm. This will be one of their cocktail/mingling events, featuring some delicious complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, and of course, their 'Best Shoe' competition. So bring your girlfriends, come network, kick up your heels and meet new members, and don't forget to wear those shoes that make your heart skip a beat! If you plan to attend, please RSVP to amanda@shoeclub.us

Experience The Power of Progress, WBENC’s 9th Annual Women in Business Conference. Attend workshops and networking opportunities while getting to know the powerful women in today’s business world. The Georgia World Congress Center. wbenc.org.

Experience The Power of Progress, WBENC’s 9th Annual Women in Business Conference. Attend workshops and networking opportunities while getting to know the powerful women in today’s business world. The Georgia World Congress Center. wbenc.org.

Experience The Power of Progress, WBENC’s 9th Annual Women in Business Conference. Attend workshops and networking opportunities while getting to know the powerful women in today’s business world. The Georgia World Congress Center. wbenc.org.

Run like the wind, swim like a fish, and bike like Lance at Atlanta’s AFLAC Iron Girl Triathlon. Lake Lanier. irongirl.com/events/Atlanta.

Author George Sand (aka Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant) was born on this day in 1804. She wore men’s clothing and smoked in public, pushing the early 19th century social boundaries. Novelist Ivan Turgenev said of her, "What a brave man she was, and what a good woman."

Psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte was born today in 1882. The great-grand-niece of Napoleon I of France, Marie was a Princess by title. Her interest in (and financial backing of) psychoanalysis was a great instigator in its popularity. Her wealth enabled Sigmund Freud to escape Nazi Germany and it was to her that Freud said, “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’” Bonaparte also conducted extensive research on female orgasms.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, best known as the writer of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” was born on this day in 1860. The short story illustrated the cultural views on women’s mental and physical health in the 19th century. Gilman experienced what is now believed to be severe post-partum depression after the birth of her only child, which inspired the tale. The great-niece of influential humanists Harriet Beecher Stowe, Catharine Beecher and Isabella Beecher Hooker, Gilman believed that economic independence was the only thing that could really bring freedom to women, making them equal to men.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Happy Independence Day.

Soak up some hometown pride and taste-test the funnel cake at Atlanta's smaller Fourth of July celebrations:
The City of Marietta's hosts a parade at 10 am. Fireworks begin at 9:30 pm. mariettaga.gov.
Roswell's celebration at Roswell High School features local bands like Banks and Shane. Fireworks at dusk. 770.641.3705.
Decatur’s Pied Piper Parade starts at 6pm outside the First Baptist Church of Decatur. Fireworks at dusk. decaturga.com

Veronica Guerin was born on this day in 1958—watch Cate Blanchett portray the Irish journalist in the heartbreaking namesake film, Veronica Guerin. Her life and death inspired fellow Dubliners to crack down on the growing drug trade and clean up the city for good.

“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Artist Frida Kahlo was born on this day in 1907.

Throw caution and calories to the wind. Today is the National Confectioners Association of America’s national Chocolate Day. Go on, buy yourself a box.

Today is the 415th birthday of Artemisia Gentileschi, an Early Italian Baroque painter, who is now considered to be one of the most talented painters (besides Caravaggio) of the era. She was the first female painter to become a member of the Academy of Art and Design in Florence, and one of the first females to paint religious and historical themes in a time when these things were considered beyond a woman’s reach.

Author Ann Radcliffe was born today in 1764. Considered the pioneer of the gothic novel, her stories of heroic young girls exploring mysterious and dangerous locales became very popular and influenced the work of writers like Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. Read Austen’s Northanger Abbey for examples of imitation and parody of her work.

Aphra Behn was born on this day in 1640. She was one of the first women to earn a living as a writer. Behn’s work was revolutionary, discussing race and female sexuality—something not touched upon by the predatory Libertine male writers of her time. Virginia Woolfe said of her, “All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn...for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.”

The American Boot Camp Company is offering free sessions at Central Park in Atlantic Station. This Saturday morning, grab your morning coffee (you'll need it), lace up your running shoes and do something for yourself. 7.30 am. thebootcampcompany.com.

Simone Veil, France’s former Minister of Health, was born on this day in 1927. Veil was a Holocaust survivor (she, her mother and sister were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau) who went on to build a good life and political career, despite losing her father, brother and mother during the Holocaust. She pushed the notable laws of making access to contraceptives easier (1974) and legalizing abortion (1975) and went on to become President of the European Parliament (1979-1982) and still continues to be socially and politically active.

Encourage a young female writer to find her literary voice at Charis Books’ Young Women Writers group. Open to girls ages 14 - 19, they meet the second and fourth Monday of every month. 5-6:15pm. 1189 Euclid Avenue. charis.booksense.com.

Don’t miss the Tony Award winning classic, and strong-women spectacle The Color Purple, as it makes its first stop on the North American Tour at The Fox. 404.817.8700.

Maggie L. Walker, the first female founder/president of a bank in the US, was born on this day in 1887 to a former slave and an abolitionist. She worked her entire life trying to make life better for African Americans and women—the founding of her bank was due to her idea that people should pool their money together to help each other. Her bank, St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, still exists today as the Consolidated Bank and Trust Company in Richmond, VA.

Don’t miss the Tony Award winning classic, and strong-women spectacle The Color Purple, as it makes its first stop on the North American Tour at The Fox. 404.817.8700.

On this day in 1862 Ida B. Wells was born. Wells fought for equality of women and African Americans—especially the equality of African American women in the suffragist movement. 71 years before Rosa Parks, Wells refused to give up her seat on a train, and when they made her move, she sued the railway company. She won her case in the local court but lost when the railroad took it to the Tennessee Supreme Court.  Her refusal to stand in the back of suffragist parades garnered her more media attention for her causes.