President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday a bill that made Juneteenth — the anniversary of the day the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom — a federal holiday.
One worthy way to celebrate this Pride month is to watch the industry-shattering, Golden Globe-nominated drama Pose.
Over a decade after the Great Recession, women workers are still struggling. New research identifies ways to a more inclusive economic recovery this time around.
“Skateboarding is usually considered to be a boy’s sport, but we were meeting so many girls and boys who were taking to skateboarding and really thriving at it."
A luscious, green canopy outlines Cauca, a mountainous municipality in southwestern Colombia. These biodiverse forests are under threat from the damaging impact of narcotrafficking, and so are the indigenous people defending them. For environmentalist and politician Sandra Liliana Peña Chocué, the price of defending this indigenous territory was her life.
Nedd’s debut novel, Don’t Hate the Player, which will be released on June 15 by Bloomsbury Kids, draws a lot of inspiration from Nedd’s years as a young gamer and general gaming enthusiast.
Overburdened and underpaid, India’s health workers, known as accredited social health activists (ASHAs) — all of whom are women — continue to work without sufficient PPE kits, facing harassment and stigma.
In this Q and A, the screenwriters reveal how the woeful sex education they experienced as teens in Texas fueled the plot of their new teen road-trip movie.
Netflix’s new documentary, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, offers a glimpse into how fraught the application process is.
The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be.
Ed and I became so close that sometimes I had a hard time distinguishing Ed from Sam. Eventually, he banished Samantha. He changed my life. He changed our life.
Now that we’re past the first 100 days, can Biden sustain his a blistering pace in his fight against climate change?
With aspirations as grand as mine, while identifying as a member of a deprecated community, I’m cognizant of the fact that I have to work twice as hard. But I’m willing to do so.
When Carly Manes first began working in reproductive health and started having conversations with clients about their needs, she immediately noticed something: many of them wished there were more resources for parents who wanted to explain what abortions were to their children.
Women who have been victimized by displacement also find themselves preyed upon in the IDP camps (by camp officials and other IDPs alike), no access to justice or protection.
Cultish provides readers with an explanation of not only how cults gain influence and but how seemingly any innocent person could fall prey to their power: the potency of words.
The bipartisan bill, part of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, would be the first to outlaw the distribution of private intimate visual depictions without consent.
Greta Thunberg quickly became a leading voice in contemporary climate activism, despite her young age and non-elite status. But even with her popularity and success, some argue that she has become both a hero and a villain.
'The Underground Railroad' meticulously displays one of history’s most shameful and violent eras without lingering in sadism.
According to the UN Secretariat Gender Parity Dashboard, while women compose nearly 57% of entry-level P-2 positions, they comprise only 38% of D-2 positions, the highest level of employment in the U.N.
Robin explores the general crisis in journalism—especially print journalism, despite the current Golden Age for print investigative reporting. Special Guest: Gail Collins, New York Times columnist.
“Because We Are Girls” follows the story of three sisters on their journey to heal from the long-buried trauma of childhood sexual abuse decades before.
The exhibit coincides with the #LanAsket (“I will not be silenced”) movement against gender-based violence and harassment.
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