Women's History Month

Josephine Baker: Iconic entertainer, Resistance spy, and American hero

It 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.

Women’s groups, several unions plan mass marches, potential women’s strike March 8

"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.

Women’s History Month: Jeannette Rankin, first woman seated in Congress

“I may be the first woman member of Congress,” she observed upon her election in 1916. “But I won’t be the last.”

Remembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons

Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.

Today in women’s history: Redstockings holds abortion speak out