women
Women fight an uphill battle in El Salvador
March 9, 2015A delegation of women recently paid a visit to El Salvador to see what women are doing there to better their lives.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Barbie is born
March 9, 2015Barbie became the figurehead of an extensive and highly lucrative brand of Mattel dolls and accessories.
Read moreRemembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons
March 6, 2015Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Rosa Luxemburg born in 1871
March 5, 2015Rosa Luxemburg, born on March 5, 1871, in Zamość, Poland, was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent.
Read moreOakland residents celebrate black history with tributes to outstanding women
March 4, 2015We Stand on Their Shoulders" was the theme as young and old packed the house Feb. 28 to hear poems, dramatizations and accounts from history.
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