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#MuteRKelly supporters protest outside R. Kelly's studio, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 in Chicago. Lifetime's
The Why
Community

Why ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ has some black women feeling more included in #MeToo

Why have many black girls and women felt the social media movement that has exposed the misdeeds of powerful men has left them behind, until now?

Air Date: January 17, 2019

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Feminista Jones and Brittney Cooper (courtesy of the authors)
Radio Times
Community

Black feminism

Guests: Brittney Cooper, Feminista Jones We talk about black feminism and what makes it distinct from white femin ...

Air Date: January 16, 2019 10:00 am

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In this 2014 photo, demonstrators react to hearing the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby birth control case outside the Supreme Court in Washington. A judge in California has blocked implementation of a Trump administration policy that would let more employers decline to offer birth control coverage on religious or moral grounds.
NPR
Courts & Law

Judge blocks Trump birth control policy in 13 states and D.C.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump rule that would greatly expand the number of employers that could decline to offer contraceptive coverage on moral or religious grounds.

7 years ago

Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lael Brainard says a growing body of research suggests that diversity leads to better decision-making. (Cliff Owen/AP)
NPR
Money

The push to break up the boys’ club at the Fed

At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women.

7 years ago

#MuteRKelly supporters protest outside R. Kelly's studio, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 in Chicago. Lifetime's
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

An open letter to R. Kelly: We hear your accusers

Meet our outrage. Much of the black community is sickened by what we saw in the Lifetime documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly."

7 years ago

This is the fourth year Pennsylvania has given some of its colleges and universities money to help educate about and fight against sexual assault on campus. (Andy Matsko/The Republican-Herald via AP)
Education

Gov. Wolf stands against proposed Title IX changes

About $1 million dollars is going out to 38 colleges around the Commonwealth to fund efforts against campus sexual assault.

7 years ago

Director Ryan Coogler attends a London screening of his film Black Panther, the highest-grossing movie of 2018. (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Black directors had a big year in 2018 — but other inclusion numbers stagnated

Black directors had a "banner year" in 2018, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.

7 years ago

Millions of women joined hands along a highway in Kerala to form a
NPR
Community

Millions of women in India join hands to form a 385-mile wall of protest

Even as women of all ages lined up on one side of the highway, many of their menfolk — husbands, friends and relatives — lined up on the other side to show their support.

7 years ago

102 women serve in the House on the first day of Congress in 2019 (Sean McMinn/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

What it looks like to have a record number of women in the House of Representatives

One hundred twenty-seven. That's how many women will be in Congress this year, up from 110 in the previous Congress. It's a jump that's simultaneously so big and so small.

7 years ago

Ayo (Florence Kasumba, left) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) are members of the Dora Milaje, the elite female warriors of Wakanda, in Black Panther.</em
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

The fierce female characters of film in 2018

In 2018, movie theaters offered a range of explorations of women and power: how they wield it, fight for it, abuse it.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Supreme Court. (Image via Google Maps)
Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse

The court's main opinion issued Friday says the law's definition of a child doesn't include fetuses or unborn children, and it says victims of perpetrators must be children.

7 years ago

The U.S. Capitol Rotunda stands empty on Monday, a result of the partial government shutdown. The shutdown has affected the administration of the Violence Against Women Act, which expired Friday at midnight.
(Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Violence Against Women Act expires because of government shutdown

VAWA funds and administers numerous programs assisting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

7 years ago

Mrs. Claus poses in 2012 in New York City. Five years ago,
NPR
Lifestyle

Mrs. Claus is coming to town — and not as Santa's sidekick

America's Santa industry has long been a male-dominated one. An estimated 5,000 professional performers break out their Santa caps each winter.

7 years ago

Participants in a masculinity workshop discuss a reading at Lutheran Settlement House on Sunday, October 28, 2018. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
Community

Philly men redefining masculinity in #MeToo era

The groups look deeper at problems in male culture that contribute to sexual harassment and violence.

7 years ago

Listen 5:50
Patricio Manuel, the first openly transgender man to box professionally in the U.S., faced off against Hugo Aguilar on Saturday evening at a casino in Indio, Calif. The judges declared Manuel the winner. (Texas Isaiah)
NPR
Community

A trans man steps into the ring — and wins his debut as a professional boxer

On Saturday evening, Patricio Manuel, 33, became the first openly trans man to compete in a professional boxing match in the U.S.

7 years ago

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