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Country Singer Allison Moorer is Back With "I Dream He Talks to Me," A Memoir on Mothering a Child with Non-Verbal Autism ...
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(Books)
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I had been living in New York City for six months and working at school for students with Autism and related disorders when I heard about Allison Moorer. More accurately, I heard her twangy Alabama ...
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Created on 12 October 2021
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Hashing It Out: #MeToo Trailblazer Tarana Burke Opens Up About Her Message of Solidarity and Writing Her Remarkable New Memoir, Unbound
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(Feminism)
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... Latino boys from Harlem accused in a brutal assault on a jogger in Central Park. After graduating from Auburn University in Alabama, Burke relocated to Selma where she worked for an organization that taught ...
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Created on 14 September 2021
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Fried Green Tomatoes: Sample Some Sweet, Southern, 1930s Style Via This Early-90's Classi
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(Style)
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... (Mary-Louise Parker), whose love for each other gives them the strength to tackle life’s obstacles—including but not limited to bigotry, sexism, racism, etc.—in Depression-era Alabama. Not only is the ...
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Created on 19 August 2021
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Hey Sluts! Pinky Cole’s Plant-Based Burger Joint, Slutty Vegan, is Going to Rock Your World (AND Take You Out to Dinner First)
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(Eat Me)
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... has expressed plans to expand to 13 restaurants within the next year, with Birmingham, Alabama being the only confirmed new location so far. Pinky Cole’s bold moves seem to be paying off as her burger ...
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Created on 29 June 2021
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"The Lesbian Bar Project" Documentary Is Helping to Save Lesbian Bars From Extinctio
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(Movies)
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... sexual orientation or gender identity; and Rachel and Sheila Smallman, the couple who started Herz, a lesbian bar in Mobile, Alabama. We also learn about Kimberly Mckeand, a civil rights organizer and ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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The Obamas Team Up with Netflix to Release "We The People," A New Educational Animated Show About Civic Issue
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(TV)
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... Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Daveed Diggs, and Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard with “Checks and Balances.” Moreover, Janelle Monae, Adam Lambert, Andra Day, and poet Amanda Gorman will be featured ...
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Created on 03 June 2021
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COVID-19 Has Made Access To Reproductive Healthcare Evasive, As If Getting An Abortion Wasn't Already Hard Enough in Americ
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(Living)
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... throughout the Covid-19 epidemic,” including those running Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
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Created on 23 February 2021
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Poland Implements Near-Total Ban On Abortion
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(Feminism)
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Poland has outlawed nearly all abortions in spite of the massive pro-choice protests that have been raging since the decision was made last October. This has been the largest demonstration in Poland ...
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Created on 28 January 2021
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What Louisiana's New Abortion Restrictions Mean For America ...
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(Feminism)
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... is the fact that the conditions for why people may need to have an abortion will still apply.
Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, and Louisiana all have similar language in their state constitutions ...
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Created on 06 November 2020
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Set Your Spooktober Off Right With These Queer And Women-Centered Virtual Literary Events
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(Books)
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... powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Click here for more information and tickets.
The Poetry Project Boo: Ghosts and the Unconscious for Utopian Dreaming ...
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Created on 16 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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... passed in 2019.
Alabama
Like many southern states, most of the suffrage groups in Alabama only advocated for white women’s suffrage. Despite the many organizations pushing for Alabama to ratify the ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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Let's Stop Naming American Schools After Confederate
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(Living)
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... County, Alabama is home to schools like Lanier Senior High School, Lee High School, and Jefferson Davis High School, named after Sidney Lanier, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, respectively. All three ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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8 Incredible People to Replace Racist Statues With
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(Living)
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... was an incredible man who played a big role in the civil rights movement in Virginia.
Birmingham, Alabama A statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn was taken down by protestors on June 2. Mayor Woofin ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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Ditch Your White Savior Complex: 10 More Documentaries To Watch About Racism Instead Of “The Help”
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(Movies)
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Director Spike Lee's 1997 documentary tells the story of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing through archival footage and new interviews. On Sunday, September 15, 1963, a church in Birmingham, Alabama, ...
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Created on 10 June 2020
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Nicole Atkins Unveils New Video For "Domino": BUST Premier
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(Music)
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... she played a key part in reviving, Atkins brings all of these influences to life by creating her own sonic landscape. Italian Ice was co-produced by Atkins and Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes and recorded ...
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Created on 08 April 2020
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How Canada Is Winning In The Essential Procedures Debate
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(Feminism)
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... clinics statewide to halt what viewed as “elective” procedures. Much like in Texas, judges have blocked Yotes’ initiative—as well as Alabama’s.
According to CNN, the ruling judges in Alabama and Ohio ...
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Created on 31 March 2020
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Federal Judge Overturns Coronavirus Abortion Ban In Texas
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(Feminism)
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... in penalties of up to $1000 or 180 days in jail.
Abortion restrictions as a result of COVID-19 were also overturned in Ohio and Alabama, according to POLITICO. I’m gathering that as a general rule of ...
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Created on 31 March 2020
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In Honor Of Hulu's “The Great,” Here Are Some Other Women In History We'd Love To See Onscre
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(TV)
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... in Alabama. Truth returned to the South in order to sue the slave-owner and get her son back, winning the case and making history. But her story does not end there. Truth believed that the spirit came ...
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Created on 25 March 2020
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The Center For Reproductive Rights is Taking On The Supreme Court This Week
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(Feminism)
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... Rights stated, “What’s alarming is the extremism of the laws that were passed in the last year, some 47 years after Roe v. Wade, that Alabama would pass a blanket abortion ban that would be signed by the ...
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Created on 02 March 2020
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Could The Equal Rights Amendment Finally Be On The Road To Ratification?
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(Feminism)
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... of Alabama, Louisiana, and South Dakota have already asked a judge to prevent Ferriero from certifying the ERA’s ratification and to acknowledge that five states rescinded their ratifications and should ...
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Created on 17 January 2020
