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...
Aug 16, 2020 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket and acknowledging the vital role Black voters will play in his bid to defeat...
May 21, 2017 | Action Corner, Politics
Search for: From Baltimore to Bangladesh, let’s end child marriage! New Jersey was poised to make history last Thursday, barring a veto from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, when it could become the first state in the United States to set the legal age of...
Jan 13, 2017 | Girls We Love, Politics
Search for: Meet Pramila Pramila Jayapal is the U.S. Representative for Washington’s 7th congressional district. She immigrated to the United States from India by herself to attend college when she was 16 years old. Her parents, an engineer and a teacher, spent...
Jan 13, 2017 | Organizations We Love, Politics
Search for: EMILY’S List WATCH THE VIDEO EMILY’s List is the nation’s largest resource for women in politics. They work to recruit, train, and elect women across the country, driving a movement to create historic change. They were founded in 1985 with the...
