Civil Rights Activist Marsha P. Johnson to be the First Transgender Person Given a Monument in America
A group of lawmakers in Elizabeth, N.J., authorized plans to build a monument to transgender civil rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. According to Union County officials, this would make Johnson the first transgender person in the country to be honored with a monument.
'Crashing down’: How the child care crisis is magnifying racial disparities
Ninety-three percent of child care workers are women, and 45 percent are Black, Asian or Latino, while half of child care businesses are minority-owned.
Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping GOP transgender care ban
Kentucky's Democratic governor has vetoed a sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths. Gov. Andy Beshear said in his veto message Friday that the bill would increase youth suicides.
Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court
Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's first Supreme Court pick, has been sworn in as the 116th justice. She is the first Black woman to serve on the nation's high court.
US Capitol statues will honor Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg
The first and second female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will have statues erected in their honor at the U.S. Capitol as a result of a bill signed into law last week by President Joe Biden.
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100
Women's History Month: Women of color whose names you should know - Professional Woman’s Magazine | The Working Woman’s Magazine
These leaders — Black, Latina, Asian, Arab, Native American — in varied fields, broke both gender and racial barriers as they made … Continue reading Women’s History Month: Women of color whose names you should know →
From a plea to a founding father, to the suffragists to Title IX, to the first female political figures, women have blazed a steady trail towards equality in the United States.
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'Where are the women?': The untaught history of women's suffrage | The GroundTruth Project
In commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, with which women first won the right to vote, the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission came together with one simple but ambitious goal: To educate Americans about women’s often-ignored U.S. history.