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NMWA honors Maria Grazia Chiuri, Judy Chicago and Mellody Hobson

April 8, 2022

Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on US quarter as treasury begins distribution

March 31, 2022
National Women’s History Museum – the American Women’s Quarters

PARTNERSHIP for Appalachian Girls’ Education

March 21, 2022
The story of the Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education begins with me: a girl growing up in a working-class family in the Western North Carolina mountains. I was a girl with big dreams but li…

Natalie Portman wanted to shift football culture. So she founded Angel City FC

March 18, 2022
in The Guardian The actor formed an ownership group that includes athletes and Hollywood stars to found a different type of team. The club has already sold nearly 16,000 season tickets

WOMEN’S RAGE

March 4, 2022
by Miyako Pleines in Ploughshares at Emerson College Claire-Louise Bennett’s new novel stirs up all the women in literature who have been sealing their anger away, letting it churn undisturb…

What to Know About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Historic Nomination to the Supreme Court

February 28, 2022
in The Smithsonian Magazine Jackson, a 51-year-old Harvard graduate and former public defender, would be the first Black woman on the Court

SELC’s Chandra Taylor-Sawyer on environmental justice in the South

February 27, 2022
Chandra Taylor-Sawyer is a senior attorney in our Chapel Hill office and leader of our Environmental Justice Initiative.

20 books that are essential reading for Black History Month

February 5, 2022
Offered by Flatiron Writers Room

Racism in Disguise? (No, not even disguised!)

February 4, 2022
Let’s not pretend, (to do so is embarrassing.)

A Black Woman Could Make the Supreme Court More Reflective of American Values

January 26, 2022
By Allison Gaines in Zora, and in MEDIUM DAILY DIGEST It’s time to do what we can to put a Black woman on the bench. Let’s unpack this.

JUDY CHICAGO: The Dinner Party 1982

January 12, 2022
This featured plate is titled “Sacajawea.” The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbo…

APPALACHIA (APP-a-LATCH-a)

January 10, 2022