By Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University Over nine decades, efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to recognize women’s rights have faced major challenges. Congress finally passed such legislation, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1972. The amendment would recognize women’s equal rights to men under the law. Despite concerted campaigns by women’s rights groups,…
July 24, 2019 Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University Marvel’s gambit to propel “Avengers: Endgame” to become the top-grossing movie of all time finally paid off. The studio re-released the final film in its “Avengers” series earlier this month with extra footage and a post-credit tribute in an effort to pass James Cameron’s 2009 film…
by Julia Conley Donald Trump believes that YOU will believe that doctors are monsters, women are completely craven, and Democrats have black souls, because that’s the only way his attacks make sense. Don’t prove him right by buying this BS. » Women’s rights advocates were relieved late Monday when Senate Democrats blocked an extreme…
July 20, 2019 Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a senator from California, has spoken about how she benefited from attending Berkeley’s desegregated schools. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day.…
One 70-year-old woman from the United Kingdom, Pat Smith, has made huge contributions to saving our planet. July 19, 2019 Our planet is the only place we have to live, at least for the time being. Yet it’s not something that dawns upon us very often. We are blessed to receive all that we do…
July 19, 2019 A Wisconsin woman, whose given birth name is Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, defied everyone who ever teased her when she earned her PhD in higher education. Yes, Marijuana Pepsi is her real name, but you can call her Doctor Vandyck. A Wisconsin woman, whose given birth name is Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck,…
« Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel. » May 30, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Hurry it up. That’s the message from both the United Nation’s climate chief and a climate mobilization group as they sound the alarm on the catastrophe that awaits if the world…
July 16, 2019 The teen boys say they would do it again in a heartbeat. Three Ontario teens are earning significant praise online after they selflessly interrupted their evening to help push a total stranger’s broken car about 7 kilometers (or around 4.3 miles) down the highway at four in the morning last week. …
By Rachel Goldlus, July 12, 2019 candidate in environmental history Whitlanders in the 1940s. Established in 1941 near the base of Victoria’s Mount Buffalo, this Catholic community celebrated the ‘dignity of manual labour’ and was led by a charismatic athlete and former…
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica.This story was originally published by ProPublica. Newly released documents show the lead detective in an Elkhart, Indiana, police investigation that led to a pair of wrongful convictions was forced to resign because of sexual misconduct with an informant, the details of which the city had…