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One of the most fun facts about Stacey Abrams, the attorney, political powerhouse, voting rights activist and former (and possibly future) gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, is that she’s also a prolific author. In fact, over the past two decades, she’s quietly written eight popular romance novels under the pseudonym “Selena Montgomery” in addition to her nonfiction bestsellers Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change (2018) and Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (2020).
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Black and Latina women are suffering the worst jobs losses, while white women and men are seeing small gains Women have always faced an uphill battle when it comes to finding equitable employment. Women are far more likely than men to work part time jobs (because of their caregiving duties at home, of course). And []
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WorldMAKERS#SayHerName founder Kimberlé Crenshaw credits her success to "not being able to be silent"
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SportsThe RootESPN, Alliance for Women in Media Announce Sponsorship for the Next Generation of Black Female Journalists
As The Root’s resident sports junkie—who moonlights as its sports, culture and music writer—I can’t help but take tremendous pride in fellow Black reporters and commentators like Malika Andrews, Maria Taylor, Jemelle Hill and Cari Champion every time they drop gems on some of my favorites sports shows.
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“We have assets that allow us to identify stories, that allow us to communicate with different communities, that the rest of the people in our newsroom may not be able to do.” - Tanzina Vega, journalist and host of @TheTakeaway, talks with Emmy award-winning host Lilliana Vazquez about seeing her role as the only Latinx person in the room as an asset, about growing up boricua in New York, and about how her experience as a mother has been different from her mother and grandmother’s experiences. Lilliana will be hosting more conversations with badass Latinas to celebrate #latinxheritagemonth so stay tuned! #MAKERSatHome
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PoliticsUSA TODAY'When daughters are cherished as much as sons': 11 powerful quotes from Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke her mind, spanning everything from the MeToo movement, gender parity and the Supreme Court decision she would overturn.
U.S.USA TODAYLouisville names first Black woman as interim police chief amid unrest over Breonna Taylor's death
Yvette Gentry, a former LMPD deputy chief, will take over as interim chief beginning Oct. 1, and is ready to "move the needle forward."
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Some of the things you know about suffrage, including the inclusivity of the movement, need to change. Over time, rumor can turn into legend.
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U.S.Yahoo Life'Breaking the bronze ceiling': Statue of iconic suffragists in New York's Central Park makes history on 19th Amendment anniversary
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PoliticsTimeAngela Davis In Conversation With Yara Shahidi: 'We're Doing Today What Should Have Started 150 Years Ago'
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PoliticsThe WeekKamala Harris' DNC speech was full of tributes to Black women leaders — and her mother
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) made history in many ways as she accepted the Democratic party's vice presidential nomination Wednesday. But in her Democratic National Convention speech, she was sure to thank all the women who'd helped her get there."That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me; women and men who believed so fiercely in promise of equality, liberty, and justice for all," Harris said to start his speech as the first Black and South Asian woman on a major party's presidential ticket. She then acknowledged how this week marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, and how hard Black women had to work after its ratification to ensure their own voting rights as well."Women like Mary Church Terrell, Mary McCleod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Diane Nash, Constance Baker Motley, and the great Shirley Chisholm," Harris recounted. "We're not always told their stories, but we all stand on their shoulders." And then Harris pivoted to "another woman whose name isn't known:" her mother, Shamala Gopalan Harris. Harris then described how her mother immigrated to the U.S. and met her father at the University of California, Berkeley, and weaved her mother's story through the rest of her speech, knowing "she's looking down on me from above." > Sen. Kamala Harris pays tribute to women who fought for the right to vote and to generations of women who "fought for a seat at the table."> > "These women inspired us to pick up the torch and fight on." https://t.co/Y1dFBvJi8W DemConvention pic.twitter.com/4jcDobIx2C> > -- ABC News (@ABC) August 20, 2020More stories from theweek.com A confused Kirsten Dunst asks Kanye West why he put her on his campaign poster 5 bitingly funny cartoons about the Democratic National Convention Sean Hannity has reportedly privately admitted he thinks Trump is a 'bats--- crazy person'
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PoliticsFortuneMelinda Gates, Ai-jen Poo, and 9 more women on what the 19th Amendment’s 100th anniversary means to them
One hundred years after the 19th Amendment granted some women the right to vote, today's leaders reflect on its significance.
PoliticsThe Daily BeastA Century After We Got the Vote, WTF?
One hundred years to the day after women first won the right to vote in America, and the country is in a weird, dark place. There’s a kind of brutal symmetry between 1920, when the mass exodus of women from the home and into the workforce supercharged the movement, and 2020, as the pandemic forces working women back into the home. It’s all so retro. Even Kamala Harris, the first Black and South Asian woman on a major party’s presidential ticket, has to weather viciously misogynistic attacks while also pandering to 19th century notions of womanhood. Harris—who was 49 years old and the attorney general of California when she got married—recently described the title her step-kids gave her, “Momala,” as “the one that means the most.” Much the same way that Michelle Obama transformed herself from a Harvard-educated lawyer into "Mom in Chief,” or Hilary Clinton in 2015 and 2016 kept stressing her roles as a grandmother and a mother while running to be commander-in-chief, women still have to minimize or explain themselves in the context of family. Meanwhile, it’s practically unheard of for a man, political candidate or otherwise, to qualify his work with a statement about fatherhood. Whither the Women’s Movement?This ongoing pablum about motherhood is part of the same hoax that once denied women the right to vote. If being a mom is the most important job, then the government doesn’t need to guarantee women equal pay, paid leave, subsidized childcare, or even the franchise. The suffragists knew this, and in 1907, they rebranded with the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, to draw in women from the industrial trades. Sick of being condescended to as the weaker sex, and inspired by the British suffragists who made headlines for heckling political candidates and getting beaten up by police, the Americans muscled up a previously chaste cause. Instead of temperance and moral purity, they talked about money. As the US Labor Commissioner, Carroll Wright (a man), put it in 1910: “the lack of direct political influence constitutes a powerful reason why women’s wages have been kept at a minimum.” The same could be said in 2020. While women’s participation in politics has skyrocketed, and the franchise was eventually, belatedly extended to women of all races, gender representation is nowhere near parity. The Democratic presidential contest started with six female candidates and ended with a white man choosing one of them to fill out his ticket. That secondary position is reflected in the workforce, too, where it’s been compounded by the coronavirus and the Trump administration’s failed response to it. A study conducted in March and April found that telecommuting mothers were doing five times more childcare than their husbands, and less paid work as a result, thus expanding the existing gender gap in work hours by 20 to 50 percent. Another study found a precipitous drop-off in publishing among female academics in May. It’s Arlie Hochschild’s “Second Shift” on steroids.That downward spiral is threatening to squeeze women out of the workforce altogether. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the last woman to exit the presidential campaign and the only candidate with a full plan for universal childcare, has linked the caregiving crisis to economic recovery. Predictably, there haven’t been so many men rallying to her cause.Yet the influx of women into the workforce, and subsequent rise of the Labor movement, was a key turning point in the “century of struggle” that culminated in the 19th Amendment, as documented by Eleanor Flexner’s definitive history of the same title. That decades-long process moved women away from a purely domestic identity bound up in their biology, and helped deprive their opponents of a central argument; as wards of their husbands and fathers, women (“privileged” and “white” were implied) did not need — nor could they handle —direct political representation in public life. The hypocrisy, as well as the racist double standard, was obvious to Margaret Fuller, the first woman on the staff of the New York Tribune, even in 1845: “Those who think the physical circumstance of Woman would make a part in the affairs of national governance unsuitable are by no means those who think it impossible for the Negresses to endure field work even during pregnancy or for seamstresses to go through their killing labors.”Generations of women subsequently centered work outside the home to justify their fight for equality. Betty Friedan’s 1963 classic The Feminine Mystique kicked off second-wave feminism by identifying “the problem that has no name” as the lack of professional opportunities for overeducated and under-stimulated housewives. And the National Women’s Political Caucus was specifically founded in response to the failed 1970 Equal Rights Amendment, to get more women elected to public office and party positions. But the gains of the following decades of activism, which culminated in the 2018 election cycle with more women running for office and voting than ever before, are about to be tested. All of which is to say this: We better hope that women, whether they are homebound or risking their lives at work to support their families, can fill out their ballots this year. The Radical Roots of Mother’s DayRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
LifestyleFortuneKatie Hill on refusing to disengage from politics: ‘Change is too important to step out of the arena’
Hill wrote “She Will Rise,” a memoir about her time in Congress and its aftermath.
