Ahead of Election Day, women across America turned their anxieties about the nation’s socioeconomic and racial turmoil and fears about the pandemic and the future into action by volunteering.
Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla’s path to running for Congress as a Democratic candidate was not a linear one.
As the United States struggles to reaffirm its raison d'être, can the prospect of transformative change in a re-invigorated South American body politic become a new beacon for democracy?
Just because a person in power is a woman does not mean the way they use their power will actually help other women.
More than 100 women have run for president, and each one widened the possibilities of what a presidential candidate looks like.
As some media moved to put a box around the Latino vote, activists, leaders and journalists pushed back.
Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.
Campaigning during the pandemic has forced candidates to innovate and improvise.
Robin grapples with the truth about this college that’s not a college or a place. Special Guest: Esther “Little Dove” John, a “faithless elector,” on being inside the Electoral College.
When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18, so many women didn’t just mourn the loss of an amazing person, but also the loss of a historic fighter for gender equity.
Latinx journalists will continue to be left out if we don't change our tactics
OMAS GEGEN RECHTS, or “Grandmothers Against the Extreme Right,” challenges the revival of far-right extremism with personal histories inextricably tied to theirs and their parents' experiences with similar movements in the past against fascism, misogyny, and racism.
Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.
The 19th Amendment didn’t secure the right to vote for Native American women, despite their strong influence on suffragist ideas.
Due in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant shortage of poll workers across the country. Amber Berger, who lives in Menominee County in Michigan, tried her best to help.
Despite the unfulfilled promise of the 19th Amendment, Black women have traveled an impressive distance over the last century, and continue to exert outsize political influence.
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