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People on the Internet are Finally Talking About How Painful IUD Insertion Can Be
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(Living)
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... is being a cruel, sadistic, slave owner who experimented on enslaved Black women without their consent or anesthesia. He committed gruesome atrocities against Black women under the guise of medical science. ...
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Created on 06 January 2023
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Lizzo Plays a 200-Year-Old Flute...And Racists Freak Out
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(Music)
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... men are unhappy with this iconic display of history making. Madison was a known owner of slaves during his Presidency, making Lizzo’s playing something he once owned even more of an incredibly patriotic ...
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Created on 30 September 2022
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Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
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(Movies)
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... Hate U Give) as the disillusioned political activist suffering from arrested development from losing his mother to the movement.
The movie is inspired by the actual events of several enslaved families ...
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Created on 08 April 2022
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Meet the Next Generation of Superstar Activists: Exclusive BUST Interviews
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(Feminism)
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... fundamentally believe none of us is free until we are all free. And in the United States, we can’t be free without repairing the evils of genocide and slavery. I am here to build a new society and a new ...
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Created on 15 February 2021
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This Sarah Paulson Dancing Trend on TikTok Cured My Anxiety, I Swear
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(Entertainment)
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... Slave, in which she played a slave owner’s vicious wife who scratched Lupita Nyong’o’s character in the face.
Years later Paulson would solidify her place in my heart as Lana Winters in American Horror ...
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Created on 07 October 2020
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#SaveTheUSPS And Mail Your Feminist Friends Stationery From These 10 Women-Owned Shops
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(Living)
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... Can’t Actually Delay The Election, And Here’s Why
How The Once Enslaved "Stagecoach Mary" Became The Gun-Toting First Black Woman Mail Carrier
How A Woman Helped Deliver Over 500,000 Masks To Healthcare ...
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Created on 18 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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... the movement wouldn’t have ignited without the legendary Sojourner Truth, an enslaved woman from upstate New York, whose speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” inspired suffragists all over the country to engage in ...
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Created on 18 August 2020
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The Band Formerly Known Lady Antebellum Is Suing A Black Singer For The Name Lady A (And We’re Tired of Performative Allyship)
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(Music)
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... sharing the name Lady A.
The band Lady A made the decision to change their name due to the word antebellum's ties to slavery. This was generally well-received at first, but there was a problem: there’s ...
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Created on 09 July 2020
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Let's Stop Naming American Schools After Confederate
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(Living)
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As the United States comes to grips with its ugly history, more and more people are calling for an end to the ways we honor those with dark pasts. Statues and monuments of former slave owners and confederates ...
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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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... noted Schuyler was reportedly the largest slave owner in Albany. We recommend a statue of Sojourner Truth, famous abolitionist and women’s rights activist who penned the famous piece, Ain’t I A Woman, ...
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Created on 24 June 2020
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Why Getting Rid Of The Aunt Jemima Brand Isn't Enoug
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(Eat Me)
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... to acknowledge the origin of the brand itself and the real women who posed as Aunt Jemima.
Nancy Green, who was born into slavery in 1834, was recruited by the Davis Milling Company to wear a headscarf ...
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Created on 22 June 2020
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12.
Issa Rae Talks Fame, Feminism, And “Insecure” Season Four: BUST Interview
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(Entertainment)
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... to work for MYSELF.”
“I was working at a museum for a slave ship exhibit,” Rae says of that time in 2010. “I was on a literal slave ship! When I tweeted that, I just knew I couldn’t give that slave ...
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Created on 10 April 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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... and win (!!) and continue through her travels around the United States speaking up for abolition and women’s rights.
Born Isabella Baumfree in 1797, Truth was sold into slavery at the age of nine alongside ...
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Created on 25 March 2020
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14.
The Story Of Fanny Eaton, The Forgotten Jamaican Pre-Raphaelite Muse
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(Arts)
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... give you some background.
IN THE BEGINNING Fanny was born in 1835. Her mother, Matilda Foster, was an ex-slave, but no father is mentioned on Fanny's birth certificate. There’s a theory that her father ...
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Created on 04 September 2018
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Bill Clinton Says He “Did The Right Thing” With Monica Lewinsky: Link Roundup
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(Feminism)
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... we enslave all white people for a couple hundred years, then even after they’re not slaves anymore, still hold them down in society, de-value their existence by comparing them to animals, never apologize, ...
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Created on 04 June 2018
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BUST's 10 Best Bets For February And March 201
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(Entertainment)
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... Slutever covers surprising topics like BDSM “platonic lifestyle slaves,” and happy ending massages for women. Catch it starting Jan 24. 10. The #MeToo Moment Newsletter from The New York Times
photo ...
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Created on 01 February 2018
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17.
How Sex Workers Built America
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(Living)
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... emergency hospital. And former slave turned influential brothel owner Mary Ellen “Mammy” Pleasant campaigned tirelessly for the desegregation of streetcars in San Francisco.
Mary Ellen Pleasant
These ...
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Created on 17 November 2017
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18.
How The Harlem Renaissance Woke Up America
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(Entertainment)
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... Erma Seweatt
The first generation of people born free had a fight on their hands. Removed from the shackles of slavery, they were still oppressed and persecuted in their own country. So, it shouldn’t ...
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Created on 13 November 2017
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Women Who Regret Motherhood Share Their Stories
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(Living)
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... to understand what I had done. It intensified over the years,” she says. When asked what she realized, she continues, “That it is irreversible. It’s enslavement. It’s drudgery.” That feeling is echoed ...
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Created on 03 November 2017
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Ben Affleck Condemns Buddy Harvey Weinstein, But It Turns Out He’s A Creeper Too
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(Entertainment)
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... revealed that Affleck requested to leave out the part of his family history where a relative was a slaveowner. Of course, no decent human being would want to be associated with such a dark and tragic part ...
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Created on 12 October 2017