women
Sandra Bland had the right to say “no”
July 24, 2015Some day organized dissent will change the system that allows cases like that of Sandra Bland to occur; let's make that day happen sooner rather than later.
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Sandra Bland’s jailers spinning autopsy results
July 24, 2015The trooper plainly didn't like Bland's forthright defense of her civil rights; in Texas, you can be prosecuted for resisting arrest even if the actual arrest was illegal.
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Scam videos try to destroy Planned Parenthood – again
July 22, 2015An individual with ties to far-right video scammers has launched a new video attack on Planned Parenthood.
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Flora Hommel, 87: life as a labor of love
July 17, 2015Besides being the founder of the Childbirth Without Pain Education Association, her work touched on so many areas ... health, women, city politics, world politics.
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Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875
July 10, 2015She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.
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