Anna Malaika Tubbs’ debut biography celebrates Black motherhood and fights the erasure of Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin.
In interviews with The 19th, three pardoned women said clemency is a tool to make a dent in mass incarceration, but the process as a whole is broken.
No private federal prisons house women. Advocates for incarcerated women, LGBTQ+ people hope this is just the start to big reform.
Harris, the first HBCU graduate in the White House, centered her alma mater on Inauguration Day. Students, professors and alumnae noticed and matched her pride.
At the eleventh hour, Montgomery became the 11th person to be executed by the federal government under the Trump administration.
Two courts halted Lisa Montgomery’s execution date. The federal government is preparing to lethally inject her anyway.
Two women were among those who died following the riot at the Capitol. But White women are not often seen as the face of extremism.
Biden’s picks for deputy attorney general, associate attorney general and assistant attorney general for civil rights are all women.
The WKKK was independent of the Klan and just as committed to bigotry. One researcher says the 19th Amendment made it possible.
Unlike any other year in modern times, 2020 shined a spotlight on the resilience and struggles of women, LGBTQ+ people and all others underrepresented in our democracy. Here, we take a look back at the stories that most impacted us.