As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Selva Almada’s work is central to the battle to protect hard-won victories that President Javier Milei has vowed to overturn.

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The Village Bohemian counterculture movement in the late 19th century and early 20th, with its artistic creativity and ...

The 4B movement ... in South Korea. Women in South Korea had protested against the “shockingly widespread” gender-based ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, as the United States grappled with Reconstruction, Black women — both formerly ...

Leader’s yearlong examination of notable people, institutions and key moments in Lexington’s history focuses on an early ...

The 4B movement began in South Korea ... election as president in November 2024 sparked American women’s "fears about the future for women’s rights", said Youngmi Kim, a Korean studies ...

In the late 1800s, those who wanted to eliminate birth control and abortion targeted the U.S. mail. Now the conduit in the ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

American foreign policy elites’ concern for global women’s rights was, in effect, “noblesse oblige.” If this amorphous way of understanding women’s rights were the only way, the new ...

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...