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August 2020

Some black women activists feel left out of the BLM movement | WUWM 89.7 FM

2020-08-24
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 24, 2020
In: Women activists

After spending time in Minneapolis watching protests unfold following the death of George Floyd, Annia Leonard returned to Milwaukee ready to join similar marches around the city. But the activist said she was met with resistance. “Minneapolis was like a war zone,” she said. “Being there made me want toRead More →

I Am Woman: How Helen Reddy’s Music Roared Through the Women’s Movement | Music

2020-08-24
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 24, 2020
In: Women movement

When Unjoo Moon visits Helen Reddy, they are still drawn to the record player Moon bought for the singer. Reddy, who was diagnosed with dementia, now lives in a Los Angeles nursing home for professional artists. Moon and Reddy play their favorite songs, as well as Reddy’s own albums. “AndRead More →

Historian: Suffrage was largely the white women’s movement | State News

2020-08-22
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 22, 2020
In: Women movement

INDIANAPOLIS – “The suffrage is white.” This is the position of Susan L. Hall-Dotson, coordinator of African American history collections at the Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis. “It is painful for whites – and white women in particular – to admit that they alienate themselves from other women on theRead More →

The century of black women activists who paved the way for Kamala Harris

2020-08-19
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 19, 2020
In: Women activists

Joe Biden’s choice of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate is rightly heralded as a historic moment for black women. For the first time, a black woman is the presumptive candidate for a big party ticket. This time is coming 100 years after women won the right to voteRead More →

Coronavirus pandemic shows women’s movement has a lot of work to do

2020-08-14
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 14, 2020
In: Women movement

As the new coronavirus has swept through almost every country on the planet, it has hit some populations harder than others. In Rhode Island, Latinos make up 46% of the state’s case count. Nationally, blacks and Latinos are infected at disproportionate rates. And one group is serving massively on theRead More →

Why a Beijing conference in 1995 was important for the Dalit women’s movement

2020-08-11
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 11, 2020
In: Women movement

On that day 25 years ago, August 11, 1995, a devadasi woman, Yellamma, traveled from Raichur district in Karnataka to Delhi to participate in a historic event. In the presence of over a thousand Dalit women, Yellamma lit the inaugural lamp to establish a pan-Indian network, the National Federation ofRead More →

Rise Up: Songs from the Women’s Movement

2020-08-11
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 11, 2020
In: Women movement

Again Saturday January 1, 2022 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday January 2 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand —A celebration of the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage reflected in popular music— “Rise Up: Songs from the Women’s Movement” celebrates the 100th anniversary of theRead More →

The fight against the 19th Amendment excluded black women activists

2020-08-05
By: Jacquelyn J. Marks
On: August 5, 2020
In: Women activists

Martha S. Jones has a problem with the word “suffrage.” She’s seen the word frequently in 2020, as Americans mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920. For her, “suffrage” is reminiscent of the protests led largely by whites. women,Read More →

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