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A woman in the crowd wears a “Vote” pin before the arrival of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Md., on Aug. 15, 2024. (Drew Angerer / AFP via Getty Images)

By Jocelyn Frye | Monday, Aug. 26, marks Women’s Equality Day 2024. This annual celebration commemorates the certification of the 19th Amendment, which recognized women’s constitutional right to vote. It’s a reminder that the founding promise of equality in our Constitution was not always available to everyone—and that women have had to fight to be treated as equals to men. That is particularly true for women of color, many of whom could not vote even for decades following passage of the 19th Amendment due to racial restrictions in voting laws. 

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The cast of Suffs perform onstage at the Tony Awards at David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center on June 16, 2024, in New York City. (Theo Wargo / Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

By Jennifer Weiss-Wolf | This year we commemorate the 51st anniversary of Women’s Equality Day with perhaps more optimistic urgency than ever before.

Amid the buzz, there has been an overt, palpable melding of pop culture and politics. That includes on Broadway, where the two-time Tony Award winning show, Suffs, tells the story of the fight for women’s suffrage—and all the humanity and perfectly imperfect organizing strategies of the cadre of activists who won the right to vote for women—in song.  

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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in It Ends With Us. (Sony Pictures / Everett Collection)

By Ashbey Beasley | During its opening weekend in early August, It Ends With Us surpassed $80 million globally. Based on the book by Colleen Hoover, the film stars Blake Lively as flower shop owner Lily Bloom. Lily meets and marries charming neurosurgeon Dr. Ryle Kincaid played by director Justin Baldoni. The film follows their relationship from its passionate beginning to Ryle’s devastating physical abuse of Lily.

It’s natural to hate Ryle for the monster he unleashes on Lily, but it’s also important to remember that the 6-year-old boy who had to cope with killing his brother and best friend is also a victim. Unintentional shooting incidents—like the one that changed the trajectory of Ryle’s and Lily’s lives—are preventable if gun owners practice safe firearm storage.

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