The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change
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My art uses plastic recovered from beaches around the world to understand how our consumer society is transforming the ocean
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A Black history primer on African Americans’ fight for equality – 5 essential reads
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Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
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Donating to help women get abortions is a First Amendment right – protected by Supreme Court precedents
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How Gen Z is using social media in Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement
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How female Iranian activists use powerful images to protest oppressive policies
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More than 4 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths are preventable in the US, and mental health is the leading cause
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Abuse in women’s professional soccer was an ‘open secret’ – the ‘bystander effect’ and structural barriers prevented more players from speaking out
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Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott pull from segregationists’ playbook with their anti-immigration stunts
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