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Despite the sexual assault accusations against him, Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as Supreme Court Justice on Saturday. By a close margin vote of 50-48, the Senate granted Kavanaugh a lifetime seat on the most powerful court in America. President Trump tweeted his support for Kavanagh stating that he “applaud(
The midterm elections are fast approaching and it seems that women are at the forefront of not only the amount of female candidates this year, but it looks like that they might be leading in voting polls too. Facebook/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Over the past weeks leading up to the midterm
Since the #MeToo movement and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2017 issue featuring the “silence breakers”, the public has seen multitude of women step forward into the public eye to bravely tell their personal stories and have their voices heard. Such is the case for hotel workers who
In April, the Nicaraguan people, particularly college students, began leading the country into a series of small protests in an effort to denounce the reign of current president Daniel Ortega. Today, almost four months since the first protest, over 300 people have been killed and thousands more flee the country
When I was 19 years old I had an abortion. Very few people know. Now you know too. I was in a college psychology class when I got the call. I remember my world spinning out of control, as if all the things that mattered to me was no longer
If there is anything women should be informed about is the Supreme Court or SCOTUS decisions that could potential impact or threaten our quality of life. For women of color, the threat is deeper especially when access to reproductive health care, fair pay, workplace protections and union benefits, can be
Step aside, women of color aren’t waiting ‘for our turn’ to take over the archaic, ‘grey suited’ seats that are no longer working for the United States. The political courage to step up and take over are definitely within our reach and trailblazers like Shirley Chrisholm, the first African
By now you have seen the photograph of a two-year old immigrant, Honduran asylum seeker crying hysterically as the toddler and her mother were taken into custody at the US-Mexico border. The heart-wrenching image taken by John Moore, a special correspondent and senior staff photographer for Getty Images is one
The U.S. government is separating immigrant kids from their parents – legally. This is following the Trump administration’s announcement that they would be prosecuting anyone who crossed the border illegally. As immigrant parents crossed the border to escape political turmoil, high rates of violent crimes, poverty, and low-wages in
When I read about the murder of Claudia Patricia Gómez González, I felt a chilling mix of anger and numbness. A young woman seeking a better life, killed by our government. Nothing new. But somehow this story caught the media’s attention. So what are we going to do with
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