‘We should all be represented’: Rhode Island could send the first Afro-Latina to Congress
Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos is one of three Latinas and 12 Democrats in an upcoming special election.
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Poverty experts find that where you grow up largely determines how you do in life
Authors of a new book on poverty point to how decades-old factors have turned parts of rural America into the country’s poorest places, where women are often the most disadvantaged.
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These Louisiana sisters took their fight against big industry in ‘Cancer Alley’ to court — and won
The ruling overturns a 33-year-old zoning ordinance, standing in the way of a proposed grain export terminal. Now, one sister is running for parish council.
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109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivor becomes oldest woman in the world to release a memoir
In “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” Viola Fletcher recalls the horrific night in 1921 when America’s “Black Wall Street” was burned to the ground.
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Poetry collection ‘Negative Money’ explores how everything in American life has a price
Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram released their latest collection of poems just days before the Supreme Court’s decisions on affirmative action and student debt relief.
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Fewer than 20 Black women physicists in the U.S. have earned tenure. This scholar just joined the club.
As the first Black woman to earn tenure in particle theory or cosmology theory, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is breaking barriers in physics while achieving her lofty childhood dreams.
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Florida education officials say these women benefited from slavery. Here's the truth.
As the state draws ire for its new social studies standards, historians are shedding light on the life experiences of women like Elizabeth Keckley and Betsey Stockton.
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How Fannie Lou Hamer’s disability informed her fight for voting rights
Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony at the 1964 DNC shook the nation and highlighted the fact that many people didn't realize that Hamer had a disability — or how it played into her activism.
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‘We’re truly not valued’: In New Orleans, Black mothers are increasingly the victims of gun violence
The rise in the city’s violent crime has a double impact: the loss of a life and the enduring trauma of violently losing a parent.