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Today at Ms. | July 23, 2024
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Kamala Harris and Fannie Lou Hamer: A Powerful Moment, 60 Years Later [[link removed]]
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Vice President Kamala Harris on the South Lawn of the White House on July 22, 2024. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
BY MICHELE GOODWIN | At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer gave an impassioned account of the violence she and others suffered while attempting to register to vote.
In August, 60 years after Hamer’s famous appeal, the delegates assembled will vote and name Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. Harris will be standing on Hamer’s shoulders.
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Harris Just Made Gender Visible in the 2024 Election—But It Was There All Along [[link removed]]
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BY JACKSON KATZ | Now that Joe Biden has announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the salience of gender as a critical factor in the contest for the presidency will rise quickly to the surface. But gender is always present in those campaigns—whether or not it’s visible.
Unfortunately, many commentators in mainstream and progressive media seem not to understand—or want to discuss—the deeply gendered nature of presidential campaigns or the presidency itself. This glaring deficit in political analysis was on full display in coverage last week of the Republican National Convention.
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Antiabortion Extremists From Across the Nation Target Same D.C. Clinic Twice in One Week [[link removed]]
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Anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy at a news conference on April 5, 2022 in Washington, D.C. A key staffer of both the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust and Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Handy is currently serving a five-year prison term for blockading access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic on Oct. 22, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
BY ROXANA BEHDAD, RIYA KHATOD and MAYA TILLEY | The DuPont Clinic, a critical provider of complex abortion care in Washington, D.C, was targeted as the site of protests and harassment two times within five days by prominent antiabortion extremist groups: the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust (SAH) and Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU).
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