The Washington Post reports that five of Col. Moammar Gaddafi’s female bodyguards have come forward to say that they were systematically raped and abused by the now fugitive Libyan leader, […]
Tag: Civil Rights
Front of the Bus
Danielle L. McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black […]
Black History Month: The Myth of the Black Superwoman, Revisited
In January 1979, you might have walked past a newsstand in New York City and noticed the piercing brown eyes and free-flowing hair of Michele Wallace staring you down from […]
Is Single-Sex Education the New Separate-But-Equal?
Just when you thought we were over that whole separate-but-equal hullabaloo, Louisiana throws us another curve ball. One school district’s program to teach boys and girls in segregated classes has […]
Better Muslim Than Gay
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about how much my people are under attack in America today. The thing is, though, as an American Muslim, I don’t really feel under […]
Douching for a Raise, Translating Ebonics and Feminist Polygamy: Editors’ Picks, 8/22-8/28
We selected some of the best feminist blog posts of the past week; check ’em out: In light of devastating floods in Pakistan that have left 20 million people homeless and 2,000 […]
Breaking: Prop 8 Overturned!
History never moves at lightning speed, but some days seem even longer than others. The wait today, for the judge’s ruling in the federal trial challenging the constitutionality of Prop […]
How Gender Fits Into the Shirley Sherrod Affair
Regardless of our feelings on race, we hate unfairness and injustice. Most of the time. And that’s why there has been pretty universal acclaim for Shirley Sherrod, the Georgia State […]
Dr. Dorothy Height, A Sister Whose Shoulders We Stand On
Under the leadership of Dr. Height, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) broadened its agenda to speak out more broadly on civil rights issues and worked to ensure that civil rights organizations understood women’s issues as race issues.
That’s why in 1963, during the famous March on Washington led by Martin Luther King, Jr., she was the only woman on the stage, although none of the male speakers mentioned women’s rights. She was disappointed and worked tirelessly to build bridges between the women’s rights and civil rights movement.
The Heart and Soul of JoAnn Evansgardner
JoAnn Evansgardner stood less than five feet tall, but she was a giant in women’s history and in my personal journey.