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Women’s movement energized at national meet
July 7, 2010BOSTON - National Organization for Women President Terry O'Neill challenged feminist activists to block new attacks on Social Security and abortion rights, and elect women who will fight for women.
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Minority, women farmers’ discrimination suits near settlement
May 27, 2010U.S. government discrimination against minority farmers and women will be a thing of the past if the Obama administration has anything to say about it.
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Celebrating Mother’s Day on the picket line
May 11, 2010PLEASANTON, Calif. - In the greeting card image of Mother's Day, Mother - surrounded by bouquets of flowers - is served breakfast in bed by her loving family before being treated to a sumptuous dinner at...
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Rights groups praise Obama’s high court pick
May 11, 2010Calling her "one of the nations foremost legal minds" and a "trailblazing leader," President Obama announced his Supreme Court nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan on May 10.
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Dorothy Height, godmother of civil rights movement
April 23, 2010Dorothy Height is remembered as a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose life's work and activism stretched from the New Deal through the 2008 election of President Obama.
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