Oct 16, 2020 | Human Rights, Politics
Search for: A noted historian examines two myths about what the 19th Amendment did—and didn’t—do for women in 1920. When it comes to the story of women’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment, two competing myths dominate. The first is that when the amendment became law in...
Oct 16, 2020 | Human Rights, Politics
Search for: We haven’t stuck the landing yet. Women’s suffrage is sometimes portrayed as the triumphant end of a movement, the hard-won reward for decades of marches, protests, hunger strikes, feeding tubes. Really, it was a beginning. One of many times America has...
Jul 16, 2020 | Human Rights
Search for: In the almost thirty years since the term intersectionality was introduced, it has been taken up in a range of academic disciplines in the United States and beyond. It has even entered public discourse as a buzzword in the age of identity politics. Black...
Jul 16, 2020 | Human Rights
Search for: The earnings chasm between Black women and white men is not new. Closing the divide, however, requires widening one’s focus beyond numerical differences that tell only part of the story. It requires developing a deeper understanding of the different...
Jun 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Human Rights
Search for: Sophia Dawson is a Brooklyn based visual artist who has dedicated her life’s work to exposing the stories and experiences of individuals who are striving to overcome the injustices they face. This isn’t Brooklyn Artist Sophia Dawson’s first...
Jun 16, 2020 | Human Rights
Search for: In mid-March, police officers barged into Breonna Taylor’s home in Louisville, Kentucky, in the middle of the night and discharged a spray of bullets that struck and killed the 26-year-old EMT. More than two months later, leaders in her city are taking...
