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JUST IN: Darnella Frazier, the teenage girl who pulled out her cell phone and recorded the police murder of George Floyd last summer, has received an honorary Pulitzer Prize for her courage.
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🧵 Republican lawmakers in at least five states have introduced legislation that threatens to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about the award-winning 1619 Project.
It previews new battles in states over control of civics education.
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The project includes audio, essays, poems and visual art that reframes the legacy of slavery in contemporary American life, arguing that Black Americans are the foundation of U.S. democracy.
It's creator,
@nhannahjones
, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for the project.
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In case you missed it: At The
#19thRepresents
, Sen.
@KamalaHarris
joined us for her first sit-down interview as the 2020 Democratic vice presidential candidate.
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UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees have denied Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure after a wave of conservative criticism.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and 1619 Project founder had tenure approval from faculty and the tenure committee.
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On the second day of camp at Tools & Tiaras, 15 girls learning to rivet sheet metal had a special guest. They may not have known him by name, but they definitely knew who he was married to.
"His wife is the first woman vice president in this country."
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🧵 South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Thursday signed a bill into law that would ban nearly all abortions in the state.
Abortion-rights advocates say the legislation is the first major abortion restriction passed out of a statehouse in 2021.
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We have a new addition to The
#19thRepresents
virtual summit — Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex.
The Duchess will join us on our final day of programming, Friday, Aug. 14, for a conversation with our co-founder and CEO,
@eramshaw
.
Register to attend:
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Black girls are suspended six to seven times as often as White girls.
Rep.
@AyannaPressley
on Friday is reintroducing legislation aimed to disrupt the school-to-confinement pipeline.
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“Abortion, birth control, and fertility care are vital — not just for athletes who can get pregnant, but for all families and gender identities,” the WNBA players union stated in an ad that ran in Sunday's New York Times.
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Exclusive: Stacey Abrams’ group
@FairFightAction
is helping voters verify if they are on the list of the more than 100,000 Georgia voters whose registration could be canceled.
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“Even though this was a traumatic life-changing experience for me, I’m proud of myself,” Frazier wrote in an Instagram post on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder.
“If it weren’t for my video, the world wouldn’t have known the truth.”
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The
#1619Project
was first published in The New York Times Magazine in August 2019, marking the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
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The nursing home industry faces a financial crisis due to overwhelming pandemic-related costs. More than 65 percent say they will be forced to close within the year.
The care of thousands of older Americans, many of whom are women, could be jeopardized.
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The insurrection marked the first time the U.S. Capitol had been breached in more than 200 years.
Court documents reviewed by The 19th begin to paint a picture of women’s roles and intentions during the insurrection.
Here’s what we found: 🧵
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Mary Peltola made history last night, winning a special election to become the first Alaska Native to sit in Congress. She will serve the remaining four months of the late Republican Rep. Don Young’s term, until January.
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Six weeks is early enough that many people aren’t likely to realize they are pregnant, let alone decide whether they want to get an abortion.
“To call it a six-week ban — it’s really a two-week window at best,” said
@YaleLawSch
’s Katherine Kraschel.
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With the Supreme Court likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion laws will be up to each state — access to the procedure will depend on where a person lives.
What does abortion access look like in your state? Find out using our interactive map.
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The
@PulitzerCenter
, in partnership with the 1619 Project, has made available related lesson planning and says more than 4,000 educators from all 50 states have reported using its resources.
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🧵Michigan voters in 2018 elected women to a level of representation nearly unparalleled in U.S. states.
But the state’s politics are still plagued with an old-school sexism. Current, former women officials say a culture of misogyny has existed for years.
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At
#SXSW
,
@KatieCouric
discusses her experience and recalls the specific reactions she received after her debut as the first woman to anchor a nightly news program — and who said them.
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Some historians say the bills are part of a larger effort by Republicans to downplay the ugly legacy of slavery and the contributions of Black people, Native Americans, women and others present during the nation's founding.
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“Abortion bans disproportionately hurt those that already have the least access to quality health care, including people with low incomes, people of color, people who are LGBTQ, and those who live in rural areas,”
@jennycblack
, president and CEO of
@ppsouthatlantic
, said.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has selected Alex Padilla to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by VP-elect Kamala Harris.
Padilla will be the first Latinx person to represent California in the Senate, but it also leaves the upper chamber with no Black women.
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🧵 Do transgender girls have an unfair competitive advantage in sports?
The Women's Sports Policy Working Group, created by six scholars and elite athletes, says their proposal provides a "compromise" to this debate.
No trans people are in the group.
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Surprise! Today, is live as a full news site. The newsroom you've been waiting for is officially here.
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🧵 Nearly one year after Breonna Taylor was killed during a botched police raid inside her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, Rep. Attica Scott is still seeking justice.
A bill she has introduced in Taylor’s honor — Breonna’s Law — would be a start.
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At the camp, Emhoff joined the campers in building their own toolboxes. He wore safety goggles that said "girl power" on their sides and participated in their "secret chant."
And when he finally got his rivet through his sheet metal, he shouted, "We did it, Joe!"
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When the country’s first commercial spaceflight takes off from the Kennedy Space Center this fall, more than one historic moment will be made.
Hayley Arceneaux, the first person selected for the mission, will be the first civilian American woman in space.
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The NBA postponed tonight's playoff games in light of the Milwaukee Bucks' decision to boycott their game as a protest to Jacob Blake's shooting.
They follow the lead of the WNBA, which has dedicated their entire season to social justice. Our coverage:
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Couldn’t join us at
#SXSW
? Now you can listen to
@emarvelous
in conversation with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,
@katiecouric
,
@brookeshields
and
@nancywyuen
on The Amendment podcast.
Listen on Amazon Music, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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A century ago today, on Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, making voting a right regardless of sex.
While this was a watershed moment in our democracy, it excluded millions of people, including women of color, from the ballot box for generations.
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Emhoff is the first second gentleman to the first woman vice president, and for him, tackling gender inequality in ways big and small felt like a natural, and critical, component of creating this role.
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Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, to The 19th: "It's good to be home."
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The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs in December, the first month-to-month decline since April.
*️⃣ Women made up all of those job losses.
About 156,000 women lost their jobs in the final month of the year, while men gained 16,000 jobs.
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Most have seen the image of Eric Munchel, dubbed “zip-tie guy.”
His mother, Lisa Eisenhart, was there too, wielding plastic restraints while chanting, “Treason!”
FBI agents allege the mother and son stashed a bag of weapons outside the Capitol.
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With Roe v. Wade overturned by the Supreme Court, each state has the right to control its level of access to abortion — or ban it completely.
The 19th created this dashboard so that you can quickly find the status of abortion rights in each state:
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California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee was said to be among those considered to replace Harris.
“So representation, it really does matter, because the lens by which you look at policies are lenses that others don’t have,” Lee told The 19th in November.
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“If you ran for Ahmaud, you need to stand for Bre."
The lawyer representing Ahmaud Arbery says pandemic news kept Breonna Taylor's fatal police shooting out of the headlines — but so did gender bias.
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The law would effectively prohibit abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they’re pregnant.
There are narrow exceptions including in cases of rape or incest or if the life of the pregnant person is at risk.
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🧵 A new bipartisan bill from Sens. Duckworth, Portman and Blumenthal to be introduced Tuesday proposes banning the sale of crib bumpers.
The bumpers have been linked to dozens of deaths and more than 100 serious injuries of sleeping infants since 1985.
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🧵 Black women are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than non-Hispanic White women.
For the Black women shaping pregnancy-related health policy in statehouses, the work is personal.
“We’re done dying. We’re done burying children.”
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The six-week abortion bans directly violate Roe v. Wade, which guarantees the right to terminate a pregnancy up until the fetus can independently live outside the womb, usually around 23 weeks of pregnancy.
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Lawmakers in Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and South Dakota want to stop lesson plans that focus on the centrality of slavery to American history as presented in the
#1619Project
.
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The 19th’s
@keaux_
reviewed more than 230 cases, and identified 28 women facing charges.
— 21 have been released while they wait for their cases to proceed
— 5 await behind bars
— 2 cases are pending
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An Oklahoma judge has revoked a lesbian mom’s parental rights, citing the state's parentage act. The judge said the act "does not take into account same-sex marriage."
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1/12 Meet
@19thNews
, the nation’s first newsroom committed to making the news — and our democracy — more representative for America’s women.
@eramshaw
@amzam
@emarvelous
@andreamvaldez
@joderlega
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In case you missed it: At The
#19thRepresents
summit, Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, interviewed our co-founder and CEO,
@eramshaw
, about The 19th's mission to create a transformative newsroom centered on gender equity.
More:
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Exclusive:
@SenWarren
next week will reintroduce a $700 billion universal child care proposal.
That investment, far more than what Biden has indicated he will seek, has support from other senators, per a letter shared first with The 19th. 🧵
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Saturday marks the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It could very well be the last before it is overturned.
With national abortion protections hanging by a thread, stories of a pre-Roe v. Wade nation matter now perhaps more than ever. 🧵
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On International Women's Day, The 19th's
@errinhaines
was joined by a super-star panel at
@sxsw
to discuss representation in the media and entertainment industries along with their personal challenges and successes.
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Vanita Gupta will be the first woman of color and civil rights attorney to serve as associate attorney general.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined with Democrats in the vote.
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The Duchess of Sussex has participated in countless interviews. This one will be different. (via
@glamourmag
)
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Court documents also show that co-workers, relatives and, in one case, an ex-partner sent social media screenshots to the FBI.
College senior Gracyn Courtright’s Instagram posts led to her arrest. “Can't wait to tell my grandkids I was here,” she wrote.
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Royal help has been enlisted.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand plans to invite Meghan to D.C. to have dinner with all the women senators and advocate for paid leave.
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BREAKING:
@JoeBiden
selects
@KamalaHarris
as his running mate on the 2020 Democratic ticket, making a Black woman the vice presidential nominee of a major party for the first time in history.
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🧵Harvard’s
@GenderSciLab
on Monday published the first study that examines the race and gender of those dying from COVID-19.
The study found that Black women are dying from COVID at three times the rate of both White and Asian men in Georgia and Michigan.
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this fall over the constitutionality of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.
Some states are moving forward with even tighter restrictions, with a growing list banning abortion after six weeks. 🧵
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#19thRepresents
: Are you watching?
Sen.
@KamalaHarris
joins us for her first sit-down interview as the 2020 Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate.
Tune in:
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Some women spent months physically preparing for the day. Others told law enforcement they made spur-of-the-moment decisions.
Most of them documented their time at the Capitol via social media.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article mistakenly stated that Hayley Arceneaux would be the first civilian American woman in space.
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Join us this Friday, Aug. 14.
@KamalaHarris
is The
#19thRepresents
summit keynote conversation. Register:
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JUST IN: Per
@DecisionDeskHQ
, Democrat Raphael Warnock projected to win the Georgia Senate special election runoff, defeating Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler. 📈
#GASen
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Join us tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center:
Announcing a Keynote Session with Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex,
@katiecouric
,
@BrookeShields
,
@nancywyuen
, and
@errinhaines
for
#SXSW
on March 8!
#InternationalWomensDay
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#19thRepresents
: Are you watching?
Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, interviews
@eramshaw
, our co-founder and CEO, on The 19th's mission to create a transformative newsroom centered on gender equity.
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In 2019, Nevada got the United States' first majority-woman legislature, and when the session begins Monday, nearly 60% of its 63 members will be women.
For the first time there, or in any statehouse in America, women will have majorities in both chambers.
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Joe Biden has announced the creation of the White House Gender Policy Council, which will work to uplift “the rights of girls and women” via numerous policy initiatives.
The council will be co-chaired by Julissa Reynoso and
@TIMESUPNOW
’s Jennifer Klein.
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This image will reverberate far beyond the halls of Congress.
Tonight features two firsts — Nancy Pelosi, the first woman House speaker, and Kamala Harris, the first woman to serve as VP, sitting behind a president during a
#JointSession
address.
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.
@HUDgov
has barred anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination in housing and rentals.
For the first time ever, it will be illegal to turn away people looking to rent an apartment or buy a house simply because they are queer.
New from
@shoeleatherkate
:
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, joined Katie Couric, Brooke Shields and Nancy Wang Yuen for an
#InternationalWomensDay
panel with The 19th at
@sxsw
:
“Whether you’re a 9 year old girl or a 90 year old woman you can absolutely continue to make the change that we all need.” — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex
At
#sxsw
, Host of The Amendment
@emarvelous
spoke with
@katiecouric
,
@brookeshields
and
@NancywYuen
.
#IWD
@19thnews
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“In America, it’s illegal to separate a puppy from its mother before eight weeks, but in the United States, one in four mothers goes back to work within two weeks."
Here's how paid family leave can affect newborns' brain development:
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🧵 The story of the Capitol riots is being told again this week as the Senate holds Donald Trump's
#ImpeachmentTrial
.
Here is what almost two dozen lawmakers told The 19th about January 6, in their own words.
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Doctors who perform an abortion on a victim of rape or incest will be required to report the allegations to law enforcement, including contact information for the pregnant person.
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We have some great news! Thanks to the nearly 750 new members who joined today during our The
#19thRepresents
programming, we've fulfilled our latest $25K match and then some.
YOU did it!
Thank you to The Drake Bettner Foundation for their generous support. We are so grateful.
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- Almost 78 percent of abortions took place at or before nine weeks of pregnancy.
- About 36 percent of abortions were performed at or before six weeks.
That indicates that the majority of abortions occur between six and 13 weeks of gestation.
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In 2020, Juneteenth is finally being broadly celebrated. It’s the kind of widespread recognition that 93-year-old Opal Lee has been trying to secure for years.
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Dawn Bancroft and Diana Santos-Smith told the FBI they had no prior plans to enter the Capitol.
“We were looking for Nancy [Pelosi] to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her," Bancroft said in a selfie video.
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“Americans deserve to live without fear of gun violence.”
Ten years ago,
@GabbyGiffords
was shot while meeting with constituents in a Tucson-area supermarket parking lot.
She has spent the last decade balancing recovery and gun safety advocacy.
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Howard University has received a $1 million gift to open a center devoted to producing gender-based research and promoting Black female leaders.
“The focus on Black women is long overdue.”
#19threads
via
@washingtonpost
:
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Harris was the second-ever Black woman to serve as a U.S. senator — Illinois former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun served from 1993 to 1999 and ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.
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🧵 Rosemarie Reilly knew her ex-boyfriend Jeremy Kelley might hurt her. But when she sought a restraining order, a Kent County, Michigan judge allowed Kelley to keep his guns.
Three weeks later, Reilly would be dead.
In collaboration with
@teamtrace
:
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Some women facing charges connected to the insurrection say they took orders from Trump.
Jessica Watkins, an army vet and leader of the Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group, trained “recruits.” She’s been charged for conspiring to hinder election certification.
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🧵Today is
#TransDayOfVisibility
.
Over a decade ago, Rachel Crandall-Crocker wanted a reason for transgender people to celebrate and come together. So she created one.
Millions of people now recognize March 31 as a day to celebrate trans people worldwide.
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Georgia voters who could be among the thousands expected to be purged from the election rolls next month can proactively check their status on a new website announced Tuesday by
@fairfightaction
.
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The enslaved women and girls who suffered for gynecology standards that exist today are often erased. Artist Michelle Browder is giving the site of harrowing sacrifice, and those women, a chance to speak.
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Also on the shortlist was California Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. In November, Bass told The 19th there‘s a need to diversify the Senate.
“I think that it will leave a vacuum to not have a Black woman there.”
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Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber will be the Naval Academy’s first Black female brigade commander, and only the 16th woman to serve as brigade commander in the 44 years that women have been allowed to attend the academy.
#19threads
via
@washingtonpost
:
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A total of 25 Democrats — half their Senate ranks — signed a letter calling on President Biden to direct federal agencies to “develop a national plan to defend Americans’ fundamental reproductive rights, including their right to an abortion.”
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Meghan and Harry’s viral interview with Oprah illustrated why the couple sought distance from the business of royalty.
But it was the Duchess’ experience with mental health crises, racism and tense family dynamics that resonated with many Black women.
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Having someone whose full-time job is being the husband of the vice president telling a group of self-described “warrior princess” campers with power tools that their opportunities in the workforce can defy stereotypes is a very direct way to help undo some of those narratives.
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Political battles have long been fought, largely in education boards, over how American students learn about everything from the Civil War to ethnic studies and health.
But this proposed legislation signals future debates may increasingly play out in state legislatures.
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1/ This week marks one year since Texas became the first state to ban most abortions. The state’s law, known as Senate Bill 8, was without precedent and offered a glimpse into a world without Roe v. Wade.
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Nancy Pelosi was reelected as speaker of the House on Sunday.
Between Pelosi and VP-elect Kamala Harris, this year will mark the first time in the nation’s history that the first two people in the line of presidential succession are women.
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In May, Texas became the latest state to pass a six-week abortion ban.
In total, 13 states have passed these bans: Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia.
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@BrookeShields
discusses the documentary
#PrettyBaby
at SXSW. Hollywood is not that different from when she was a child actor, Shields says, but more women are surrounding themselves with a community of support.
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Good morning to the majority of the American electorate.
Introducing The 19th.
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