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The Constitution: The Nineteenth Amendment | Houston Public Media
Houston Public Media· 2 days agoThe Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments ...
What is Juneteenth? The history and meaning behind the federal holiday
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSlavery was formally abolished after Congress ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
What to know about term limits and what is at stake
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoSo, if Congress won’t pass term limits what can be done? Just as with the debate over presidential terms, the states can take the initiative, calling for a convention to adopt a congressional ...
In ‘Suffs’, girl power comes to Broadway, South Jersey style
Philly.com· 5 hours agoA special outing becomes a rallying cry for members of South Jersey's Alice Paul Institute's Girls...
Pandemic treaty will give WHO power to demand 20pc of British vaccines
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoBritain was among the first countries to develop and roll out a Covid vaccine, the AstraZeneca jab,...
United Methodists vote to restructure worldwide church into four parts
Religion News Service· 7 days agoThe primary measure, voted on as the UMC General Conference met at the Charlotte Convention Center...
Incoming education commissioner opposes proposed amendment that would fund charter schools
LEX 18 Lexington· 3 days agoKentucky's incoming education commissioner, Dr. Robbie Fletcher, begins his job as the head of the state's Department of Education on July 1st. Not long after - in November - Kentucky will vote ...
How ‘History and Tradition’ Rulings Are Changing American Law
New York Times· 3 days agoIn a statement on his personal website, Wendler called drag shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.” Since the 1970s, the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment ...
REMEMBER THE LADIES: Suffragist an inmate at Occoquan Prison
Muskogee Phoenix, Okla. via Yahoo News· 6 days agoApr. 25—People often learn a sanitized version of women's suffrage. In 1917, a group of women became political prisoners in America. Kate Stafford was one of many suffragists arrested while ...
OPINION: Refocus on supporting our public schools
Anchorage Daily News· 6 days agoAlaska’s Superior Court recently struck down Alaska statutes that, for 10 years, enabled the use of public education funds for the purchase of education...