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Note: This is a copy of our weekly Tuesday a.m. Mosaic newsletter, which provides the most popular stories from Mosaic of the past week. Click HERE to sign up and never miss a week! Lately, I’ve been watching Audra McDonald as Dorothy Scott on HBO’s “The Gilded Age.” She plays the tough, sensible wife of a pharmacist and mother of a journalist in Harlem in the 1880s. She plays that tough Black woman character again in the Oscar-nominated film “Rustin” when she embodies the character of Ella Josephine Baker, a civil rights organizer who was one of the most important women in the entire movement…

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