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Why civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s in part...
Uma Thurman Believes in Women Supporting Women
InStyle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe actress sat down with InStyle at the Women Making History Awards Gala to talk about her philanthropy with Room To Grow and activist Julie Burns....
The Physical Toll Systemic Injustice Takes On the Body
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCredit - Getty Images The pathologists who performed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s autopsy noted he...
Democracy Is Feminist
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWomen marching during the Women's Equality Day protest in New York City on August 26, 1971. It was designated as Women’s Equality Day by the U.S....
7 Inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Reads
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 5 months ago7 Inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., Day ReadsMichael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Each January, schools and offices close so that we may honor Martin...
14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you may not recognize
Stacker via AOL· 5 months agoPhoto Illustration by Stacker // Getty Images In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights Movement,...
Granderson: The Senate's only Black Republican now loves Trump. It's not a good look
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 5 months agoSen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), right, was supposed to give voters an alternative to Donald Trump. So much...
Heat Is Not a Metaphor
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHeat Is Not a MetaphorJOAQUIN SARMIENTO - Getty Images I wanted to write a poem about how the extreme heat of the ocean is breaking my heart, but the...
The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWomen listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images...
'Father of Modern Gynecology' J. Marion Sims performed dangerous 'experiments' on enslaved Black...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJ. Marion Sims, considered to be the Father of Modern Gynecology.Universal History Archive/Universal...