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Before Zaila Avant-garde, these Black spellers made headlines
Avant-garde’s win follows a longer history of Black girls reaching the highest level of spelling competitions, and facing discrimination when they got to the top.
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How safe is summer camp? Depends on their COVID-19 precautions
Directors talk about a difficult year of planning and how vaccines, early testing and quarantine helped some of them safely lift mask restrictions altogether.
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#MeToo exposed how forced arbitration protects harassers. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to ban it.
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson said it will be her ‘greatest achievement in life’ to see the law enacted.
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Authors share stories of women rising up across the world to advocate for rights
Global #MeToo movement about more than individual men, Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone say.
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Trauma on top of trauma: why more women are dying in jails
Jails, especially small and rural facilities, struggle to provide adequate physical and mental health care for women, experts say.
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Parent's vaccine protects babies best against COVID-19, studies show
Does COVID-19 immunity transfer to the fetus during pregnancy? Yes, for a little while.
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Niketa Patel to lead partnerships at The 19th
Niketa brings a wealth of expertise from an impressive career in journalism.
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Why we need more empathy in journalism
Brianna McNeal, an Olympic champion whose recovery from an abortion inadvertently launched an investigation, told The 19th's Orion Rummler that past interviews on the subject had made her too afraid to say everything she wanted to say.
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Congratulations roll in after Zaila Avant-garde’s history-making win at the Scripps National Spelling Bee
A former president and first lady celebrated the 14-year-old's win.
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Abuse survivors can get shorter sentences in 2 states, but courts are saying no
Subconscious discrimination may be to blame, especially if the defendant already falls outside the classic image of a victim -- blameless and helpless.