Maxine Waters was among the 4,000 leaders and activists who gathered for the Women's Convention to inspire intersectional movement building and to mobilize for the 2018 midterm elections.
A confluence of normalized misogyny and devaluing of women made Thursday’s Women’s Media Awards all the more uplifting, emphasizing the power of sisterhood and the voices of women in media.
Five hundred guests attended the Women’s Media Awards on October 26 at Capitale in New York City.
MSNBC analyst and senior policy adviser to the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign Maya Harris hosted. Honorees were Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Hinojosa, Ashley Judd, April Ryan, María Elena Salinas, and Gail Tifford. And we celebrated the landmark 80th birthday of our co-founder Jane Fonda.
A new study confirms that three women are killed each day in the United States by an intimate partner. As Domestic Violence Awareness Month draws to a close, the author, an advocate and activist, looks at ways some communities are reducing those numbers.
Tweaking just a few words in a sentence can change its meaning entirely. The Trump administration recently did just that—and the tiny edit may have drastic repercussions for women.
No one is heralding Trump as a feminist hero. Yet on October 6, the president signed into law an act advocates say will make feminist history.
Under the guise of religious freedom, the Trump administration is rolling back contraception coverage guaranteed under Obamacare.
With a 237 to 189 vote, a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks in the U.S. was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Robin Morgan offers a very personal remembrance of her friend, the artist and author Kate Millett, who died last month.
The oversight of Flint, Michigan, officials caused lead to trickle into the city’s water supply for 18 months from the city’s aging pipes, wreaking havoc on the health and lives of Flint’s citizens.
Dr. Martha Lauzen has been conducting the Boxed In study of women in television for 20 years. Here she highlights what this year's report tells us.
A new study finds that mainstream media outlets were complicit in spreading right-wing propaganda during the 2016 campaign.
Republican lawmakers are trying to rush through another bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it’s their most harmful proposal yet.
As world leaders descend on New York City this week for the United Nations General Assembly, one group has released a report that exposes a frightening lack of government knowledge of how the rights of women are progressing in various countries.
Fast food workers put a national movement called the Fight for $15 on the map in November 2012 when they walked out of chain restaurants across New York City to demand higher hourly wages.
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