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Today at Ms. | September 19, 2022
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Fifty Years Later, the Equal Rights Amendment Is Ratified. Now What? [[link removed]]
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ERA supporters rally outside the Supreme Court in August. (Allison Bailey / NurPhoto via AP)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER | As we mark Constitution Week, the country must not forget: women were deliberately left out of the Constitution by the U.S.'s founders.
On Jan. 27, two years after the 38th state ratified it, the Equal Rights Amendment should have gone into effect—yet the fight for constitutional equality continues.
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Demystifying Cyber: Tennisha Martin, the Ethical Hacker Who Founded BlackGirlsHack [[link removed]]
BY CAMILLE STEWART and LAUREN ZABIEREK | It will take a paradigm shift to defend our national security moving forward. Women and people of color should be at the forefront of this effort. Demystifying Cybersecurity drives a critical conversation on race in the cybersecurity industry, and shining a light on Black experts in their fields.
This month: Tennisha Martin, the executive director and founder of BlackGirlsHack, a national cybersecurity nonprofit dedicated to providing education and resources to underserved communities and increasing diversity in cybersecurity.
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Ms. Muse: Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller’s Lost Poems [[link removed]]
BY CHIVAS SANDAGE | Before she became the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and the first woman to be chief of a major tribe, Wilma Mankiller published a poem about “the edges of / something called freedom.” But until now, the world has not known that this great chief, community developer, activist and author also wrote poetry throughout her life. With the support of Charlie Soap, Mankiller’s husband for over 30 years, editors Frances McCue and Greg Shaw found the magazine and nine other poems tucked randomly into boxes of paperwork stored in Mankiller’s old barn in August 2021. They wanted to publish her lost poems to show “how an activist reflected on her life through art and that art itself is activism.”
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As we gear up for a new school year, May’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas is at the forefront of the minds of parents, teachers, and youth across the nation. With America’s gun violence epidemic escalating, what can we do to address the complicated issues at the heart of this crisis—which ties together issues of masculinity, whiteness, gun control, and more?
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