A report by the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center says women living on Native American reservations face major obstacles to accessing Plan B...
With: Darnell Lee Moore and Diane Lee Chism So, boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps. ‘Cause you finds it’s...
(This is the third installment of a four part series read part one and part two here.) Series Intro: “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth...
March 22 is World Water Day, but for many people around the world, securing safe drinking water is still not obtainable. While unsafe water effects...
Any peace deal in Afghanistan that excludes women or tries to roll back their rights is doomed to fail, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said....
As women the world over gathered last week to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, women in Morocco gathered to protest the death...
There is overwhelming evidence suggesting white women are more likely than blacks to get breast cancer in the first place, but that fact hasn’t alleviated...
By: Lauren Wells, PhD Dear Trayvon, Most numbing of all is that there is nothing strange about what happened to you. Our boys and men...
“Snow Fight” is a story about the complex relationships between joy, power and objectification in the lives of young black people and young people of...
Rick Perry’s Facebook page is drawing thousands of comments pointedly taking him to task for cutting off federal funds for women’s health programs because some clinics...
A Saudi Arabian newspaper says Crown Prince Nayef has approved plans for the country to send female athletes to the Olympics for the first time...
(This is part 2 of a four part series. Read part one here) Series Intro “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth of countless generations of...
A year after the Chinese government started targeting human trafficking, the country’s security ministry reported that in the last year police had rescued 24,000 women...
Go here to read Part 1 Whereas gyms often feel like places of tremendous judgment, with its pictures of hard, slender bodies on their walls,...
Women still pay more than men for the same health insurance coverage, according to new research and data from online brokers. While new health care...
Now in her fifth decade of public service, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) has been in office long enough to see many milestones come and go....
By Soraya Chemaly Melissa McEwan recently started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that “a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full,...
Mother. Womb of life. Nine months we devour your roots. Screaming we suck your trunk. Waking we demand your attention. Laughing we beg you to...