Women's History Month
Josephine Baker: Iconic entertainer, Resistance spy, and American hero
March 1, 2018It seems only fitting with Black History Month closing out, and Women’s History Month beginning, to highlight a Black woman who exemplified strength and resilience.
Read moreWomen’s groups, several unions plan mass marches, potential women’s strike March 8
March 6, 2017"Organizers are calling all women and allies to come, for an end to workplace violence and harassment and to promote pay equity, one fair living wage, paid leave, and labor rights at work,” the coalition said.
Read moreWomen’s History Month: Jeannette Rankin, first woman seated in Congress
March 3, 2017“I may be the first woman member of Congress,” she observed upon her election in 1916. “But I won’t be the last.”
Read moreRemembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons
March 6, 2015Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Redstockings holds abortion speak out
March 22, 2014Read more