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Charlotte Vandine Forten (Courtesy photo)

Black History, Stacy M. Brown, Women's Suffrage Movement

Women’s Suffrage Heroine: Charlotte Vandine Forten

by Stacy M. Brown August 21, 2019December 21, 2021

Ida B. Wells

Op-Ed, Opinion, Women's Suffrage Movement

McKINNEY: Happy Birthday, Ida B. Wells!

by WI Guest Author July 10, 2019December 21, 2021

A group of women attend a rally and march in Washington Square Park for International Women's Day on March 8, 2018, in New York City. Around the world, thousands of women are occupying the streets, refusing to work and boycotting domestic tasks in a response to a call for a global women's strike on Thursday. In Spain large groups of women have taken to the streets to protest a gender pay gap of 19% in the private sector. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

National, Stacy M. Brown

Most of the World Failing at Gender Equality, Study Finds

by WI Guest Author June 10, 2019December 21, 2021

Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) joins supporters of Planned Parenthood in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. on May 21. Rallies were planned across the U.S for abortion rights. The "Day of Action" rally comes after the state of Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion ban, making the performance abortions illegal and punishable with up to 99 years in prison. (Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Informer)

D Kevin McNeir, National

Alabama’s New Abortion Law Most Restrictive in U.S.

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor May 22, 2019December 21, 2021

Kay Ivey

Op-Ed, Opinion, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr.

JESSE JACKSON: Extremist Laws Will Make it Harder for Poor Women to End Pregnancies

by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. May 22, 2019December 21, 2021

Kay Ivey

Health, National

Alabama Governor Signs Controversial Anti-Abortion Bill into Law

by WI Guest Author May 15, 2019December 21, 2021

A group of women attend a rally and march in Washington Square Park for International Women's Day on March 8, 2018, in New York City. Around the world, thousands of women are occupying the streets, refusing to work and boycotting domestic tasks in a response to a call for a global women's strike on Thursday. In Spain large groups of women have taken to the streets to protest a gender pay gap of 19% in the private sector. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

WILLIAMS: Equal Rights for Women Long Overdue

by WI Guest Author May 15, 2019December 21, 2021

Politics, William J. Ford

Women Push for Equal Rights at Rally

by William J. Ford February 19, 2019October 31, 2020

Demonstrators gather near R&B singer R. Kelly’s former recording studio in Chicago on Jan. 9, 2019, following the release of a Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” which highlighted years of sexual abuse against young women. Demonstrators called for a boycott of Kelly’s music and prosecution for sexual assault. (Photo by Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Columnists, D Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Why Are Women Still Marching for, Battling With, and Running From?

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor January 16, 2019October 31, 2020

5 A woman holds a sign while marching to Freedom Plaza during the 2nd annual March for Black Women in Washington, D.C on Saturday, Sept. 29. (Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Informer)

Black Women Demand Justice, Accountability at March

by Sam Plo Kwia Collins Jr. October 3, 2018October 31, 2020