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7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
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(Movies)
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... to help others to freedom in the 2019 film Harriet. After fleeing to the north from a life of southern slavery, Tubman meets some incredible people who show her a new life and encourage her to stay where ...
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Created on 30 November 2022
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6 Strategies We Can Take From Latin American Abortion Rights Activists During Our Fight for Reproductive Justice
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(Feminism)
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... assaulted, according to journalist Paola Ramos. In her book, Finding Latinx, she highlights research from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that points out that “abusers – whether supervisors or male ...
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Created on 06 July 2022
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13 Women of Color-Owned and Operated Bookstores You Can Support Right Now
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(Books)
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... for over six years. In an interview with the Southern Independent Alliance of Books, Miller shared the fond memories of how she fell in love with books:
"The love generated by my grandmother (she had ...
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Created on 04 February 2022
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"Mi cuerpo, mi opcion": Mexico supports the decriminalization of abortion in Supreme Court vot
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(Feminism)
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... rights. Argentina legalized abortions last year, and the same was done in Mexico City in 2007. The green handkerchiefs as seen in the photo above have been used nationally in women’s protests across Southern ...
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Created on 10 September 2021
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You Can Enjoy the Kitschy Glamour of Tiki Cocktail Culture without the Gnarly Colonial Aftertaste
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(Eat Me)
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...
Mariah Kunkel // Photo: Amelia Joyce Tubb
Growing up in southern California, Kunkel first began patronizing Tiki bars with her dad. “For my father, I think that there was a sense of him knowing that ...
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Created on 26 May 2021
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Andra Day Reveals Why She Required Months of Forced Rest After Making The US vs. Billie Holiday: BUST Interview
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(Movies)
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... she first got connected with Gurvitz. While she waited, Day worked various jobs in both Southern California and New York, including account manager, house cleaner—she even had a gig with an events company. ...
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Created on 01 March 2021
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How Black And Indigenous Women Got Trump Out Of Office
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(Feminism)
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... a non-profit that builds power within Black communities and mobilizes Black people across the country to vote. The organization focused on Southern states this election year and Brown, a Georgia native, ...
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Created on 09 November 2020
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Here's How Georgia's Stacey Abrams Saved America: Exclusive BUST Intervi
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(Feminism)
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... rage. Rage was new for me.
Eloquent rage, as [author] Brittney Cooper says.
Exactly. My way to speak my rage aloud was to create Fair Fight, Fair Count, and a lesser-known group called the Southern ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
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(Blog)
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... the LGBTQ community is so great; it earned them a "Hate Group" designation from the Southern Poverty Law Center."
Particularly attention-grabbing, Barrett has been accused of being "openly and firmly" ...
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Created on 30 September 2020
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10.
And The Winner Is... Naomi Osaka
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(Entertainment)
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... detailing her complex identity as Japanese, Haitian and American and why she flew to Minneapolis to protest after George Floyd’s murder.
During the Western and Southern Open at the end of August, Osaka ...
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Created on 14 September 2020
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Naomi Osaka Pays Tribute to Breonna Taylor at the U.S. Open
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(Feminism)
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... by a police officer, she decided not to play in the Western & Southern Open semifinals. Osaka tweeted, “Hello, as many of you are aware, I was scheduled to play my semifinals match tomorrow. However, before ...
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Created on 03 September 2020
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The 100th Anniversary of (Some) Women's Suffrage: Did YOUR state support women's right to vote? Check this state-by-state history of the fight for suffrage in Ameri
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(Feminism)
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... suffrage in Arkansas and its surrounding Southern states. For the next decade, women began gathering in loosely formed women’s suffrage society meetings, and by 1911 they began to lobby their state representatives, ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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“Do We Think Our Little White Asses Are The Only Ones That Matter?”: Dolly Parton Speaks Out For Black Lives Matter In New Interview
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(Music)
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... Similar to the reason the Dixie Chicks recently rebranded to The Chicks, Parton’s choice to change the name of the attraction came from the fact that the term “Dixie” was used to describe the Southern ...
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Created on 14 August 2020
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A Black Woman Voted, Now She's Going to Priso
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(Living)
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... “negro problem” was to “disenfranchise him”.
The design of felon disenfranchisement is unabashed in its intention to mute Black American voters. Post-Reconstruction, several Southern states specifically ...
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Created on 21 July 2020
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Nick Cannon’s Comments Indicate A Bigger (And Much More Nuanced) Problem
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(Feminism)
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... group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its antisemitic views. The Black Hebrew Israelites, along with the Nation of Islam, have a history of antisemitism, and Cannon touting their talking points ...
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Created on 17 July 2020
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16.
We Know The Schuyler Sisters — Now, Meet The Other Real-Life Women Behind "Hamilton
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(Movies)
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... including—no surprises here—Alexander Hamilton.
Theodosia married Joseph Alston in 1801, who was a Southern aristocrat and, unfortunately, heir to a rice plantation. While Alston was certainly charming, ...
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Created on 10 July 2020
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Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Fetal Heartbeat Bill, ACLU and Planned Parenthood Fight Back
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(Feminism)
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It’s always Tennessee. The southern state’s latest attacks on basic human rights come in the form of an astounding 23-5 majority vote to effectively pass the fetal heartbeat bill, a bill that aims to ...
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Created on 22 June 2020
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18.
Week Of Women: Lady Gaga, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Dakota Johnson
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(Entertainment)
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... sisters who grow up living very different lives—while one stays in their hometown, a small, southern black community, the other moves away and secretly passes for white. Out June 2.
The Dragons, The ...
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Created on 28 May 2020
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Ohio Attorney General Attempts To Limit Abortion Access Amidst Coronavirus
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(Feminism)
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... In 2011, they became the first state to propose the heartbeat bill, a movement that became wide-spread last summer when many other Southern states began to jump on the bandwagon. Essentially, the proposed ...
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Created on 23 March 2020
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The Dixie Chicks, My Texan Feminist Heroes, Are Back With a New Song
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(Music)
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Created on 05 March 2020