14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the competition’s 96-year history.
Demands to address gender-based violence have escalated after a social media movement and a brutal murder.
All of these cases elicit a similar feeling of Black women being treated cruelly and unfairly based on arbitrary rules.
It wasn’t until recently that I realized I have never seen the interests of young boys, such as video games or sports, treated in the same way that girls’ interests in makeup, music, or even women’s sports often are.
Some of the challenges can actually hurt their participants because they lead people to do risky things like taking medicine, playing with electricity, or gluing body parts together using super glues.
Pandemic lockdowns led to worsening levels of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder among adolescents.
Dahabo Mahdi, 32, is ploughing a small cornfield she shares with her in-laws in Jiro, a village in central Somalia. She only moved there recently. She was forced to.
The title character in Jenny Mei Is Sad is a little girl who is often sad but still makes jokes and smiles. Her best friend always lets her know that she is there to listen and play games, even when Jenny Mei isn’t at her best.
The New-York Historical Society exhibition traces the life of the “staunch, If discreet, feminist.”
The first time I was catcalled was not in circumstances I had been taught to fear.
In Kashmir, a longstanding history of mistrust with the Indian central government stands in the way of more people getting vaccinated — including pregnant women, who are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19.
Experts fear that disruptions in health services could aggravate India’s already high maternal mortality and child mortality rates.
During this pandemic year (which, really, is nearing a year and a half), the world became cleaner: Dolphins swam the canals of Venice! Blue skies lit up normally smoggy Shanghai! Pumas wandered the streets of Santiago!
A new pilot program will be introduced in the upcoming school year to teach sex education to high school students in North Macedonia — and right-wing backlash has already arisen to challenge its implementation.
A wave of anti-LGBTQ state laws, and the recent Fulton Supreme Court ruling, show the need for the federal civil rights law that is awaiting Senate action.
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