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Crafted by Newfoundland sculptor Sheila Coultas, this life-sized bronze statue holds two notable distinctions: it is the first public statue in St. John’s dedicated solely to a named woman and the ...
Eighth Street Missionary Baptist Church, a History Colorado grant recipient, was pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement and securing Women's Suffrage.
Whether or not one agrees with that assessment, the right to make it — publicly, loudly and without fear — is sacred.
The Gilded Age season 3 is off to a strong start after episode 1 introduced some exciting topics, but one introduction was a ...
From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, from women’s suffrage marches to anti-war demonstrations, many of ...
From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, from women’s suffrage marches to anti-war demonstrations, many of this country’s greatest leaps toward justice have begun with people gathering ...
It's been 100 years since women in Newfoundland gained the right to vote. To celebrate, PerSIStence Theatre Company unveiled a statue of Armine Nutting Gosling at Bannerman Park on Wednesday.
Millions have taken to the streets during recent protests against the Trump administration’s policies. It begs the question: ...
For Elaine Weiss, the story of women's suffrage had been two sentences for too long. "If you actually read most of our textbooks or survey course documents," the author told the audience at Drury ...
White women eventually gained suffrage in 1920, but it would be another half-century before all women’s voting rights were protected nationwide with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...
Washington D.C. — “Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.” Jessica Calarco coined this axiom synthesizing America’s history of placing necessary and often ...