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Taylor Swift Kicks Off Pride Month With A Petition To Support The Equality Act
Jenna Milliner-Wa...
Jun 1, 2019
Pop Culture
Donald Trump Isn't Done Calling Women "Nasty" — & Meghan Markle Is His Latest ...
Meagan Fredette
Jun 1, 2019
US News
12 People Killed In 2019's Deadliest Mass Shooting In Virginia Beach
Sarah Midkiff
Jun 1, 2019
News
AOC Goes Back To Her Bartending Roots — For A Good Cause
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's life has changed drastically since she won her congressional primary last year, but on Friday the former bartender and
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Andrea González-R...
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AOC Is Working With Ted Cruz On A Bill?
Bipartisanship may seem like a bygone concept thanks to Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who is so disliked that even members of his own party have
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Tiffany Diane Tso
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I'm An Alabama State Senator & Here's How I'm Fighting Against Th...
I've had the honor of serving as an Alabama State Senator for more than 20 years, and with every vote I've cast, I've remembered that my dec
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Vivian Davis Figures
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World Pride 2019
From Midnight Raids To Same-Sex Marriage: What's Changed In The 50 Years Since Stonewall ARISA WHITE We've seen historical progress, but also a lot of setb
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R29 Team
LGBTQ+
From Midnight Raids To Same-Sex Marriage: What's Changed In The 5...
I began my education of LGBT history by reading Martin Duberman’s Stonewall as a high schooler, growing up in New York City in the 1990s. In these pages,
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Arisa White
LGBTQ+
Trump Wants To Roll Back Your Rights? Not If Katie Hill Can Help It
Katie Hill sinks into an armchair in her office in the Longworth House Building in Washington, D.C., facing the massive wooden door. Always facing the door
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Natalie Gontcharova
LGBTQ+
10 Very Different Countries. 10 Very Different Rules For LGBTQ+ I...
On May 24, 2019, same-sex couples in Taiwan registered their unions as the country’s historic new law legally recognizing same-sex marriages went into ef
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Erika W. Smith
News
Exclusive: DNC Requires Female Moderators At Every 2020 Debate
With more women in the presidential race than ever before, the Democratic National Committee is requiring that each 2020 Democratic presidential debate inc
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Natalie Gontcharova
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Louisiana Governor Bans Abortion Once A Fetal Heartbeat Is Detected
On Thursday, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a measure into law banning abortion in Louisiana once a “fetal heartbeat” is detected, whi
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Andrea González-R...
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What It's
Really
Like To Work For AOC
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is known for giving her followers in-depth peeks into her life as a congresswoman in Washington, D.C., through her addictive
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Tiffany Diane Tso
News
Calculate How Much Your Child Care Would Cost If Elizabeth Warren...
The costs of child care in the United States have skyrocketed in recent years, making it nearly impossible for many families to have access to high-quality
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Andrea González-R...
Work & Money
The Model Minority Myth Has Gotten A Millennial Makeover (But It’...
You’ve seen them on the tennis court, on the ice, in comedy, selling out stadiums, stunning on RuPaul’s Drag Race, starring in movies and television sh
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Karen K. Ho
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Fifth-Grade Teacher Put Black Students In "Shackles" For Mock Sla...
A fifth-grade teacher cast Black students as slaves to be purchased by their white classmates in mock slave auctions and the exercise had a “profound
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Andrea González-R...
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I’m Undocumented & I Work For Bernie Sanders. Here's How We're Fi...
In December 2017, I sat alone in a dark cell on a metal bunk bed without a mattress or heat, over 2,000 miles away from my hometown of Gilbert, AZ. Seven o
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Belén Sisa
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Man Charged In Death Of 13-Year-Old Chloe Ricard, Accused Of Givi...
Chloe Ricard, a 13-year-old from Amesbury, MA, was pronounced dead shortly after being dropped off at the emergency room in Lawrence General Hospital on Mo
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Tiffany Diane Tso
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Meet Tiffany Cabán, The AOC-Endorsed Queens DA Candidate Who Supp...
Queens district attorney candidate Tiffany Cabán has a big overarching goal: to get people to stop thinking about criminal justice as a punitive system. B
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Tiffany Diane Tso
Wellness
How A Group Of Black Lawmakers In Georgia Fought For Your Abortio...
Earlier this month, as wave after wave of draconian and unconstitutional abortion bans crashed over us all, a friend shared on Facebook about how overwhelm
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Jaclyn Friedman
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Kamala Harris' Plan To Stop Restrictive Abortion Bans, Explained
Sen. Kamala Harris announced a plan on Tuesday to keep rogue state governments in line, preventing them from continuing to enact unconstitutional abortion
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Natalie Gontcharova
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Missouri Could Lose Its Last Abortion Clinic, Becoming The First ...
A decade ago, there were five clinics providing abortion care in Missouri. Today, only one remains — and it's in danger. Officials say Planned Paren
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Andrea González-R...
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I Had An Illegal Abortion Before
Roe v. Wade.
Bans Will ...
Devery H. had an illegal abortion in South Carolina in 1970, three years before Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose. Today, she is a 69-year-old ret
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Andrea González-R...
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A 5-Year-Old Girl Is Missing In Utah — & Her Uncle Is The Main Su...
Police are still searching for Elizabeth Shelley, who was reported missing early Saturday morning. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the five-year-old gi
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Jenna Milliner-Wa...
Work & Money
Megan Rapinoe Wants To Know: Why The "Resistance" To Paying Women...
With two weeks until the Women’s World Cup in France, the U.S. Women’s National soccer team have a message for America. Speaking at the team’s media
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Tanya Edwards
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34 Black Women Just Graduated From West Point, In The Most Divers...
Women made history at West Point’s graduation Saturday. The 2019 class of graduates included a record number of Black and Hispanic women, making it their
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Jenna Milliner-Wa...
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AOC Admits On Instagram She Still Gets Nervous Speaking In Congress
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is making politicians relatable once again. The millennial congresswoman took to Instagram to use the “ask me anything” featur
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Jenna Milliner-Wa...
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Amanda Eller Talks About Her 17 Days Missing In Hawaii: “Times Of...
“The last 17 days of my life have been the toughest days [of my] life, and it's been a really significant spiritual journey that I was guided on
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Jenna Milliner-Wa...
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Mississippi's Restrictive Abortion Ban Blocked By Federal Judge
A federal judge has blocked Mississippi’s latest attempt to enact restrictive anti-abortion legislation. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves issued a prel
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Alejandra Salazar
News
Sasha Obama's Prom Photos Were Posted On Twitter & The Internet C...
Whenever you see an Obama name trending, you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get. Fortunately, in this case it was a sweet surprise courtesy o
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Alexis Reliford
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