A college professor who has accused the lieutenant governor of Virginia of sexual assault announced Tuesday she is running for an open California Assembly seat being sought by a dozen mostly Democratic candidates.
Black, White, Latina, Asian, Native, Palestinian and other women have starkly different experiences. We are joined by our gender but separated by the status of the men in our race, and by the differential privilege that some women experience.
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News Channel personality who made a rocky transition to softer news at NBC, was fired from her morning show Friday after triggering a furor by suggesting it was OK for White people to wear blackface at Halloween.
The birth of the #MeToo movement and the awarding of the Nobel Prize to he and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, who has detailed her life as an ISIS sex slave, illustrate that mentalities are slowly beginning to change and that there’s a gradual evolution in mindset, Dr. Mukwege said.
Over the past few years there’s been a major shift in bringing to light the injustices that women and girls have been experiencing for years. There are many movements such as #MeToo, #BlackGirlMagic, #BringBackOurGirls and #GirlsRock just to name a few that are working hard to keep this message alive.
“We wanted to organize and galvanize people because many of us who followed the trial or actually attended the trial, like I did, were very troubled with how everything went down,” said Nicole Lawrence, who started the petition.
A judge finalized his ruling allowing Janice Dickinson’s defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby to go to trial, but not the ex-supermodel’s allegations against the comedian’s former attorney.
I recently joined a gathering of Black women leaders in Sacramento to discuss the well-being of Black women in California. It was a pretty amazing feeling to be in a roomful of women leaders from across the state—elected officials, business leaders, non-profit leaders and policymakers—who looked like me, all having this kind of discussion together. It doesn’t happen often enough. The event coincided with the release of a report that highlights some striking disparities in the lives of Black women. Black women have one of the highest workforce participation rates of any population group, with more than 60 percent employed,
Bill Cosby has been found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era.
The truth is the imbalance of power between men and women is bad for women’s health.
This years SAG Awards was one to catch,Halle Berry,Mary J Blige and plenty more walk the red carpet and Brittany K Jackson was there to catch it all.
The #MeToo Survivors’ March will start at 10 a.m. at the intersection of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave
On the International Day of The Girl – Wed Oct 17th, non-profit Global G.L.O.W. and Compton Unified School district unveiled a floor-to-ceiling mural representing girls of the world.