5 June marks the anniversary of the official founding of the radical National Woman’s Party by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in 1916 to advocate for women’s suffrage. The NWP began as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union, a faction formed by Paul and Burns in 1913 within the larger National American Woman Suffrage Association. … [Read more…]
From the new statistics detailing the unrelenting challenges for black women in the South, sexual harassment in higher education, and Nina Simone’s unrelenting brilliance to the NFL’s first female coach, sexual assault and shame, resting bitch face, the real Aurora from Terms of Endearment, and Tennessee suffragists finally getting their due – here’s a week’s … [Read more…]
5 June marks the anniversary of the official founding of the radical National Woman’s Party by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in 1916 to advocate for women’s suffrage. The NWP began as an outgrowth of the Congressional Union, a faction formed by Paul and Burns in 1913 within the larger National American Woman Suffrage Association. … [Read more…]