women’s rights
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America’s Most Prominent Women’s Rights Orgs Marginalized and Tokenized Black Women, Say Former Staff
For decades, organizations like the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, and the American Association of University Women were heralded as the frontline orgs championing women’s rights. The limits of that “championing” were always clear to women of color: These organizations centered specifically and almost exclusively on the needs of well-educated white women. But as…
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L'Oreal's Newest Spokesperson Is a Women's Rights Activist Who Was Nominated for a Whole Nobel Peace Prize
In most cases, being named a L’Oréal Paris spokesperson would be quite the glow-up for the honoree—the French cosmetics company has built up an impressive and diverse roster of celebrities to represent it over the years. But take a casual glance through the resume of Jaha Dukureh, a prominent women’s rights activist who was recently…






