women
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SF Activists Speak Out After 3 Black Women Are Killed Within a Month
Monday, San Francisco city and community leaders gathered in the Tenderloin district for a call for action in the wake of three homicides where black women were killed within a month’s time. “Any homicide in the city is difficult and inexcusable,” activist Geoffrea Morris told Fox 2 KTVU, “but when we look at the last…
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Jamaican Beauty Toni-Ann Singh Crowned Miss World, Encourages Girls to Believe In Themselves
Black women across the world are being recognized as the royalty they are. On Saturday, Jamaica’s Toni-Ann Singh was crowned as Miss World 2019 in London. The St. Thomas native’s crowning achievement joins a historic group of black women—2019 Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, 2019 Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris, 2019 Miss America Nia Franklin, and…
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Serena Williams Denied Record-Tying Grand Slam Title by 19-Year-Old Canadian
It was a fight to the finish in Flushing during the women’s final of the 2019 US Open on Saturday. And tennis icon Serena Williams gave it her all but missed her latest chance to win a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title. Bianca Andreescu, who was named 2019 US Open Series Breakout Performer in…
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Georgia Republicans Celebrate Restricting Access to Abortion with a Fist Bump
If Trumpism has been good for one thing, it’s that it has allowed Republicans the comfort level to show the nation exactly how they feel about their legislative victories restricting women’s reproductive rights in Alabama, Missouri and future battleground states. It’s a game to them—a game they believe they’re winning. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed…
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Women Could Face Death Penalty for Having an Abortion Under Proposed Texas Law
Texas lawmakers held a hearing this week on a bill that could subject women to the death penalty if they had an abortion. Period, point blank, no exceptions. The legislator behind the bill is Texas state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, a five-times-married Republican out of Arlington who had to be placed under police protection when he…
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3 More Women Come Forward to Claim Joe Biden Was a Bit Too Handsy After His Video Pledge to Do Better
Former Vice President Joe Biden allegedly had forehead-to-forehead conversations with women who weren’t his wife. According to three women who spoke with The Washington Post, Biden reportedly made them uncomfortable during brief meetings with the potential frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, should Biden ever officially declare. The women, Vail Kohnert-Yount, Sofie Karasek and Ally Coll,…
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Columbus Police Officer Kidnapped Women Under 'Guise' of Arrest, Forced Sexual Favors in Exchange for Their Release: Report
55-year-old Andrew Mitchell, a 30-year veteran of the Columbus Police Department in Ohio, was arrested by federal authorities on Monday. According to the Department of Justice, Mitchell kidnapped several women “under the guise of making an arrest,” before forcing them to have sex with him in exchange for their release. Mitchell, who was placed on…
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Tucker Carlson Won't Apologize for Calling Women 'Primitive', Joking About Underaged Girls, and That Sounds About White
Fox News host Tucker Carlson isn’t an outstanding white man. He can’t do anything extraordinary. He can’t sing or dance or jump really high, but he does possess one trait that stands out above most all white men: He’s the loudest whiny white-guy voice in a sea of whiny white guy voices. He’s made a…
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On International Women's Day, Beverly Bond Breaks New Ground in D.C. with the 1st Black Girls Rock! Fest
In case you hadn’t heard, it’s Women’s History Month—and what’s more, this Friday is International Women’s Day, a day that celebrates the rights, accomplishments and strength of women around the world. This year, celebrity DJ, author and Black Girls Rock! founder and CEO Beverly Bond is infusing that worldwide celebration with black girl magic as…
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Trump Administration Moves to Stop Family Planning Clinics From Issuing Abortions or Abortion Referrals
In a move that has Vice President Mike Pence’s name all over it, the Trump administration is making a push to prevent family planning clinics that receive federal funding from providing abortions or referring women for abortions, a move that would gut Planned Parenthood of some $60 million in funds. Before we all go marching…