equality

Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer

Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.

Today in women’s history: Redstockings holds abortion speak out

Join us Tuesday for a discussion on the assault on women’s rights

Join us Mar. 18 for a conversation with Carolyn Trowbridge, long-time activist in the women's rights movement in Arizona. In her state and others, the right wing is undermining the right of women to determine what...

Today in women’s history: Janet Reno becomes attorney general

On this day in 1993 Janet Reno became the first female Attorney General serving from 1993 - 2001.

Youth march and celebration inspires struggle for equality

When Mayor Toni N. Harp declared Feb. 23, 2014 as "Craig Gauthier day in the City of New Haven," the overflow crowd at the Peoples Center burst into cheers.