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While there are many women of color who should be on your radar, I’ve narrowed it down to just five for now. These women are dynamic and making changes inside and outside their office.
Women of color voters made clear this last election that they are paying ... discrimination or reproductive rights,” said National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Executive ...
Trump won Texas in 2016 by 807,000. Women of color [who were] eligible but didn't vote ... Voter Shannon Creekmur told “Nightline” she’s voting for candidates who believe in women’s rights.
Women of Color Beyond Belief Conference organizers Bridgett “Bria” Crutchfield, from left, Sikivu Hutchinson and Mandisa Thomas pose together during the group’s meeting in 2019 in Chicago.
Two transgender women killed in New Orleans. Angela Davis. Born in Birmingham, Ala., Angela Davis rose to prominence during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement due to her involvement with the ...
Women of color want reproductive justice, not just abortion rights. Even with Roe protections in place, marginalized communities were already shut out of a great deal of reproductive-health care.
Sojourner Truth was one of the most powerful advocates for human rights in American history. The former slave delivered her famous Ain't I a Woman speech at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in ...
Red, pink, white: All colors recently associated with protests by and for women. But when we use them, we need to know their full meaning, says Louise Bernikow.
Women of color are disproportionately represented in the low-wage workforce, a new study released Tuesday found.. Half of working women of color earn less than $15 an hour, according to Oxfam, the ...
An entire women's rights advocacy group, UltraViolet, borrows the associations of the color with women's and LGBTQ rights movements. "The color has a lot of resonance now." ...
Women of color across the country have found themselves flooded with disbelief, anger and fear since news of the 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
They were the colors of the Women’s Suffrage and Political Union (WSPU) from the early 1900s and were brought to the U.S. by American suffragists who worked with them,” Barnes says.