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Ko Bragg
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‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who raised Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin
Anna Malaika Tubbs’ debut biography celebrates Black motherhood and fights the erasure of Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin.
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Women pardoned by Trump ask for more out of prison reform
In interviews with The 19th, three pardoned women said clemency is a tool to make a dent in mass incarceration, but the process as a whole is broken.
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Biden will not use private federal prisons. Prison reform advocates want him to do more.
No private federal prisons house women. Advocates for incarcerated women, LGBTQ+ people hope this is just the start to big reform.
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What Vice President Harris means to women at HBCUs
Harris, the first HBCU graduate in the White House, centered her alma mater on Inauguration Day. Students, professors and alumnae noticed and matched her pride.
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Lisa Montgomery becomes first woman to be executed by federal government since 1953
At the eleventh hour, Montgomery became the 11th person to be executed by the federal government under the Trump administration.
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‘Chaos’ in the courts as execution date arrives for only woman on federal death row
Two courts halted Lisa Montgomery’s execution date. The federal government is preparing to lethally inject her anyway.
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White women fight for Trump alongside far-right extremists
Two women were among those who died following the riot at the Capitol. But White women are not often seen as the face of extremism.
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Biden picks Merrick Garland and three women to lead Justice Department
Biden’s picks for deputy attorney general, associate attorney general and assistant attorney general for civil rights are all women.
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First came suffrage. Then came the Women of the Ku Klux Klan.
The WKKK was independent of the Klan and just as committed to bigotry. One researcher says the 19th Amendment made it possible.
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#19thReads 2020: The best reads on gender, politics and policy
Unlike any other year in modern times, 2020 shined a spotlight on the resilience and struggles of women, LGBTQ+ people and all others underrepresented in our democracy. Here, we take a look back at the stories that most impacted us.