Click here to view original web page at www.udel.edu Angela Davis, a scholar, author and activist, spoke to a full house in the Trabant University Center at the University of Delaware as part of her keynote lecture for the annual Black History Month Extravaganza on Feb 21. Angela Davis keynotes Black History Month Extravaganza at […]
Vasiliki Petrou – the woman behind Unilever Prestige’s healthy culture
As executive vice president and group CEO of Unilever Prestige, Vasiliki Petrou is dedicated to ensuring that other women are able to follow in her footsteps Within the first few seconds of her interview with European CEO , Vasiliki Petrou stated: “We have to help women advance.” It’s an […] Click here to view original […]
The “Pro-Life” Response To A Stillbirth In ICE Custody Is … Nonexistent
John Moore/Getty Images News/Getty Images In this op-ed, political scientist and Tufts University lecturer Miranda Yaver unpacks why the lack of Republican response to a Honduran detainee’s stillbirth is so hypocritical. While officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were declaring that a detainee’s stillbirth did not constitute a […] Click here to view original […]
Trump’s new abortion rule is an effort to silence women and their doctors while no one is looking
For generations, two words in the Public Health Service Act — Title X — have been the key to low income women’s access to crucial family-planning resources. But the White House’s recent rewrite of Title X literally requires clinics’ dead silence about some aspects of women’s reproductive rights. The […] Click here to view original […]
Hannah Beachler and Ruth E. Carter Make Oscar History for Black Women
Noel West for The New York Times The wait was long. More than three decades, in fact. But on Sunday night, two African-American women won Oscars in nonacting categories: Hannah Beachler for production design and Ruth E. Carter for costume design, both for their work on “Black Panther.” They […] Click here to view original […]
Laura Bates: witch hunts never stopped – now they’re online
If you were tried for witchcraft in early modern Scotland, one of the surest ways to be convicted was to confess. Of course, you didn’t need to confess to be convicted, and confession wasn’t always voluntary. This problem led to a practice called “waking the witch”: a form of […] Click here to view original […]