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Amy Coney Barrett Says Putting The Baby Up For Adoption "Takes Care of the Problem" of Burden Of Forced Parenthoo
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(Feminism)
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... in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case that makes abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the court’s oral arguments highlight a clear divide between liberal and conservative ...
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Created on 03 December 2021
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Child Marriage in America: How Courtney Stodden and Other Girls Are Being Forced To Marry Their Rapists
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(Feminism)
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... other states also have no minimum age requirement for marriage—Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming—which means ...
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Created on 12 November 2021
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Texas Abortion Ban: What the F*ck is Up With This New Law That Turns Everyday People Into Bounty Hunters? Here's the Facts, No Bullsh*
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(Feminism)
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... have asked the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade and reject Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. https://t.co/phIZ9l9Nx4
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 20, 2021
In order to trigger further review of ...
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Created on 30 September 2021
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Women's March To Host National Demonstration For Reproductive Freedom On October 2n
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(Feminism)
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... challenging a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy.
As soon as this Friday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on Georgia's six-week ...
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Created on 23 September 2021
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Not Their Bodies, Not Their Choice: Conservative Republicans Push For an Overturn of Roe v. Wade
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(Feminism)
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... of an amicus curiae (or “friend of the court” briefing in which a third party writes the court about a particular case at hand) for the state of Mississippi’s recently filed Supreme Court case.
Congressional ...
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Created on 29 July 2021
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Black Monuments Matter: Journalist and Civil-Rights Activist Ida B. Wells Gets Statue in Downtown Memphis
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(Feminism)
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... hatred, and violence that led her to leave Memphis 130 years ago.
Born to an enslaved family on July 16th, 1862 (six months prior to the Emancipation Proclamation) in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida ...
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Created on 14 July 2021
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Here Are Five Black Women Behind Your Favorite Bops Sung By Ariana Grande, Beyonce, & More
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(Music)
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... Five, and “Havana” by Camilla Cabello.
5. KIRBY (Kirby Lauryen Dockery)
Kirby puts the soul in songwriting. A true southern girl, born in Tennessee and raised in Mississippi, Kirby briefly studied ...
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Created on 28 May 2021
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Texas is Using Private Citizens to Enforce Its New Unprecedented "Heartbeat Bill" That Can Ban Abortions As Early As Six Week
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(Living)
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... abortion outright," said Dyana Limon-Mercado, executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes.
The unprecedented law comes after the Supreme Court agreed to take on an abortion case from Mississippi. ...
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Created on 20 May 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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Nikole Hannah-Jones on "The 1619 Project's" Genesis, Backlash And What's N
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(Feminism)
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... migrated from foreign shores.” Her father’s African American family traversed the country from Mississippi to the Midwest, and her mother descended from Czech and English migrants. As a high-school student, ...
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Created on 14 January 2021
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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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... Wisconsin supporting her during her graduate studies. We moved to Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1976, where my mom became a college librarian and my dad worked at the shipyard. Their mission was to build a ...
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Created on 05 November 2020
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What You Need To Know Now: Election Day Victories + Vote Counting Updates
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(Feminism)
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... congresswoman.
Some important state propositions were also voted on yesterday. Here are just two of those victories: Mississippi voted to end a Jim Crow-era law that diluted the power of Black votes ...
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Created on 04 November 2020
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Could The War On Drugs Finally Be Coming To An End?
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(Living)
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Voters in Mississippi and South Dakota legalized medical marijuana. Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota legalized marijuana for recreational purposes. In Oregon, voters supported Measure 110, ...
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Created on 04 November 2020
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Today Is The 65th Anniversary of Emmett Till's Lynching—Days After The Shooting of Jacob Blak
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(Feminism)
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Today is the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till’s lynching.
On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicagoan visiting family in Money, Mississippi, was violently lynched for allegedly flirting ...
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Created on 28 August 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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... Went out and rallied AGAINST passage in both Louisiana and Mississippi. When Lousianna voted against ratification, she ran to Tennessee in a last-ditch effort to stop it from being passed there. But alas, ...
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Created on 18 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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... engineered their disenfranchisement laws to bar Black male voters. They did this by targeting offenses believed to be committed most frequently by the black population: for example, party leaders in Mississippi ...
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Created on 21 July 2020
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5 Must-Try Barbecue Sauces Made By Women
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(Eat Me)
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4. This organic, date-sweetened, hint-of-chipotle sauce from Michelle Kopman is cold blended and artificial preservative-free. Organic Original BBQ Sauce, $7.49, motherraw.com
5. Try a Mississippi-style ...
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Created on 09 July 2020
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Mississippi Will Remove State Flag Bearing Confederate Symbol
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(Living)
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This past Sunday, the Mississippi state legislature voted to replace its state flag: the last in the U.S. to display the Confederate battle emblem. Now, the bill goes to Republican Governor Tate Reeves, ...
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Created on 29 June 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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... and Mississippi who aimed to ban abortion as early as six weeks, Missouri who aimed to ban abortion after eight weeks of gestation, and Arkansas and Utah who attempted to ban abortion at 18 weeks. While ...
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Created on 22 June 2020
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How A Woman Helped Deliver Over 500,000 Masks To Healthcare Workers: BUST Interview
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(Living)
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... workers or donors who’ve exchanged masks through Mask Match?
Oh gosh, a lot. One of the ones that we’re pretty proud of was there was a hospital in Mississippi that got hit by apparently one of the ...
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Created on 29 May 2020
