Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: There’s a vignette that Senator Kamala Harris likes to tell about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. It’s a well-trodden soundbite that has proliferated into hashtags and official 2020 campaign merchandise, but the commercialization shouldn’t detract...
Nov 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: In light of Joe Biden’s reported lead in Georgia in the presidential race, Abrams is earning praise for protecting voting rights. Here, we look back on her years-long history of fighting injustice. Just two years ago, Stacey Abrams lost Georgia’s...
Oct 16, 2020 | Human Rights, Politics
Search for: There’s a tendency, when looking back on the history of women’s suffrage in the United States, to assume that it was inevitable that women would get the right to vote: By the time Tennessee became the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment, on August 18,...
Oct 16, 2020 | Organizations We Love, Politics
Search for: Our Mission, Vision, and Value Mission Empowering voters. Defending democracy. Vision We envision a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate. Value We believe in the power of women to create a...
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...
