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WMC News & Features
May 15, 2018 | Koritha Mitchell | Race/Ethnicity
New memorial and museum: where the “community” impacted by lynching includes women

The new lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama, model a powerfully inclusive approach to history.

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April 26, 2018 | Janet Dewart Bell | Race/Ethnicity
“Hidden Figures” of the Civil Rights Movement — black women’s voices, power, and history

We must be intentional about preventing the erasure of black women’s history.

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April 20, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Health, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
California aims to compensate victims of state-sponsored sterilization

California is one step closer to providing compensation to the living survivors of state-sponsored sterilization.

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March 29, 2018 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Media, Race/Ethnicity
50 years after the Kerner Commission, little progress for people of color in media

The commission found that lack of representation fueled media stereotypes and distortions. Half a century later, those stereotypes persist.

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March 16, 2018 | Aviva Stahl | Gender-based violence, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
Forty percent of employees in Bureau of Indian Affairs report being harassed

About 40 percent of employees in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) report experiencing some kind of harassment, one the highest rates of all agencies in the Interior Department.

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March 16, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Benét Wilson

The last in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 15, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Maria Hinojosa

The fifth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 14, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Jenni Monet

The fourth in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 11, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones

The third in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 11, 2018 | Mitra Kalita | Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Mitra Kalita

The second in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

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March 08, 2018 Media, Race/Ethnicity
A Conversation with Joy-Ann Reid

The first in a series of interviews with women journalists of color from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.”

WMC News & Features
March 01, 2018 | Jessica Montoya Coggins | Arts and culture, Media, Race/Ethnicity
The Latinx Community Protests Hollywood

Three years after the launch of #OscarsSoWhite, activists are demanding Latinx inclusion.

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February 14, 2018 | Koritha Mitchell | Race/Ethnicity
Know Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton? You should also know Frances E. W. Harper

Harper was an outspoken activist for decades on abolition, temperance, public education, voting rights, and women’s equality. Why isn't she a household name?

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February 01, 2018 | Frances Kai-Hwa Wang | Media, Race/Ethnicity
“We are more complex than that”: How television portrays Asian American women

A new study of the portrayal of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on television has found little progress over the past decade.

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October 02, 2017 | Rebecca McCray | Disability, Environment, Health, Race/Ethnicity
New study shows women bore brunt of Flint water crisis, but they’ve also led fight against it

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.

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April 25, 2017 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Oprah Winfrey and the immortal reach of Henrietta Lacks

The Henrietta Lacks story, featured in a new HBO film co-starring and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, shines light on medical injustices against African Americans.

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October 28, 2016 | Yanick Rice Lamb | Race/Ethnicity
African-American history museum does justice to women

From Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter, the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture covers the highs, lows, and in-betweens—including the stories and contributions of women.

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June 29, 2016 | Marcie Bianco, Ph.D. | Arts and culture, LGBTQIA, Race/Ethnicity
Four Latina lesbians still seeking justice

A new documentary, "Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four," tells the heart-wrenching story of a modern "witch hunt."

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June 23, 2016 | Frankie Yara Colón | LGBTQIA, Race/Ethnicity
Orlando: The crossroads of queerness and Latinidad

In the aftermath of the Orlando mass shooting, we must be aware of the particular kinds of terror faced by queer people of color.

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May 23, 2016 | Chagmion Antoine | Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
"If you do not do right by black women, this nation is doomed to fail.”

At the Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, women and men broke silence about sexual violence and worked toward forgiveness, healing, and justice.

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May 17, 2016 | Naomi Ishisaka | Arts and culture, Race/Ethnicity
Works by black women take center stage

Opportunities for women of color are as rare in U.S. theater as they are in Hollywood. But one regional theater is defying the odds with a festival devoted to works by Black women.

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June 22, 2015 | Mary C. Curtis | Race/Ethnicity
Sorry, grown-ups. Young people can’t solve America’s race challenges alone

As the Emanuel Church shooting makes painfully clear, the young generation has learned many of the same lessons about race as their elders.

WMC News & Features
June 27, 2014 | Emily Wilson | Feminism, Race/Ethnicity
A New Look at Grace Lee Boggs, American Revolutionary
A new documentary reveals the unique perspectives and extraordinary life of the author and activist, who has been agitating for change for some seven decades.
WMC News & Features
June 12, 2014 | Mary C. Curtis | Race/Ethnicity
Remembering Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer began 50 years ago this week. In marking the anniversary, multimedia journalist Mary C. Curtis sees echoes of the struggles and resistance of that time in today’s voting rights battles.
WMC News & Features
April 04, 2013 | Mary C. Curtis | Arts and culture, Feminism, Politics, Race/Ethnicity
Activist Angela Davis Reaches a New Generation
In film and onstage, from the perspective of more than 50 years of activism, Angela Davis offers lessons from an organizer.

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