Calling Kamala Harris a “DEI hire” is both sexist and racist, and despite the GOP leadership’s pleading, it has quickly emerged as a favored line of attack from the right. Guest: Dr. Brittney Cooper, professor of gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University
The DEI Smear Against Kamala Harris: New candidate, same old playbook. Read More »
It has never happened before in the modern history of The Supreme Court. A draft of a court decision… leaked to a news organization and now very public… before the court takes the vote. This draft on the issue of abortion… suggests that the landmark 1973, Roe v. Wade decision could be overturned. Chief justice
The Daily Drum: Supreme Court Document Leak, Roe v. Wade Read More »
The Equal Rights Amendment known as ERA — yes that ERA — is back. The House passed a bill last week that would extend the deadline to ratify the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex. But is this five-decade-old amendment up to this moment? A moment that includes #MeToo, rising
Back to the Future: The ERA Read More »
Whether Sojourner Truth actually spoke the famous phrase attributed to her is a question. But the message of her 1851 speech at a women’s rights convention was clear: “Ain’t I a woman?” The formerly enslaved abolitionist and civil and women’s rights activist would not be dismissed when she demanded the time and commanded the stage, something that is
For Black women, it’s always been political and personal Read More »
at 1:30 mark: A tribute to Betsy Wade, the first woman to edit news at The New York Times. She died this week at the age of 91. In a 45-year Times career, she also became the first woman to lead the Newspaper Guild of New York and fought a sex discrimination case against the paper.
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