TRAGIC, just TRAGIC what some men can't get beyond...

ON this date in 1762 - In a moment of extreme clarity, Bun Man and Mr. Purple, owners of the Newport Mercury, named Ann Franklin the editor of the Mercury of Newport in Rhode Island.

She was the first female editor of an American newspaper.

The Boyz said it was time to hear a woman's voice...

They would be demonized for years by less liberated males.