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Race
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What Vice President Harris means to women at HBCUs
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.
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Alabama lawmaker thinks Selma is ready to look at renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge
Legislation would let city residents decide whether and what to rename the site of "Bloody Sunday."
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Here’s where Black women political organizers are putting their energy next
After wins in Georgia, they’re looking toward races for mayor and governor — plus the Senate majority in 2022.
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White women fight for Trump alongside far-right extremists
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.
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'Black Voters Matter' in Georgia's Senate runoff elections
How LaTosha Brown helped build a get-out-the-vote powerhouse in the South.
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‘The threats went through the roof’
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks to The 19th about facing increased vitriol in an era when it’s easier than ever to send threatening messages.
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First came suffrage. Then came the Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
The WKKK was independent of the Klan and just as committed to bigotry. One researcher says the 19th Amendment made it possible.
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The 19th in 2020: A reading list
In our first year as a newsroom, we reported on America's first female recession, Kamala Harris' historic election and so much more.
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#19thReads 2020: The best reads on gender, politics and policy
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.
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Alex Padilla fills Kamala Harris' seat, leaving no Black women in the Senate
Padilla’s appointment marks a milestone — he will be the first Latinx senator from California — but Black leaders who led the charge for a Black woman to fill Harris’ seat expressed disappointment.