A group of former gymnasts are accusing a nationally recognized gymnastics coach of years of physical abuse, torture and sexual molestation. Doug Boger coached young...
This election year is important in so many ways, especially for women and girls. We have seen unprecedented attacks on women’s reproductive rights, vicious battles...
Name: Kristine Kuzemka Candidate for: Las Vegas City Council Interviewed by: Wanda Kolomyjec Why are you running for office? The opportunity came up....
A program in Washington DC, which gives female condoms to residents at no cost, saved $6 million in medical costs its initial year. During the...
Last Friday, a federal judge ruled against Catholic bishops in a battle over whether the group could impose its views on contraception and abortion through...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who formerly served as the chief of the International Monetary Fund, was charged Tuesday by French officials with “aggravated pimping” for his alleged...
By Naomi Extra As a black girl growing up in the suburbs of New York there were three visible black female icons that I saw...
Wealthy people are bypassing donor lists by paying off poor people in Bangladesh into selling their organs. An investigative paper, authored by anthropologist Monir Moniruzzaman, examined illegal...
(This is part four of a four part series. Read parts one, two and three.) Series Intro: “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless...
By Neima Jahromi Director Rebecca R. Rojer’s short film, Ashley/Amber focuses on a young woman named Ashley (Diane Guerrero) who receives an overwhelming amount of...
Despite its reputation as a “strong weapon in prevention,” the HPV vaccine may not be benefiting adolescent females equally, a new study has found. According to researchers at...
As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear a case involving the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care overhaul, social scientists are asking a disturbing...
By: Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD The recent vigilante murder of young Trayvon Martin affords, albeit tragically, an important moment for taking stock in this country...
By Sara Hosey At a recent meeting of a feminist group of which I am a member, a colleague referred to me as an example...
By Ron B. Neal What happens when a feminist, a group of feminists or feminism as an ideology engages one of the most explicitly and...
By Sikivu Hutchinson Black children in America are never innocent. Innocence looks like Dick and Jane, our bright-eyed tour guides through the idyll of green...
Spanish police arrested 22 suspected pimps who allegedly used violence to force women into prostitution and tattooed them with bar codes as a sign of...
Brazil is the second biggest consumer of plastic surgery in the world. Cosmetic procedures have become so widespread that doctors are now offering them to...