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Today at Ms. | January 3, 2023 |
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Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters performs onstage at the Venice Family Clinic’s 32nd Annual Silver Circle Gala held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on March 3, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for VFC) |
BY MS. EDITORS | Anita Pointer, frequent lead vocalist of the Pointer Sisters, died of cancer on Saturday, Jan. 1, at home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 74.
Her writing and singing talents helped propel the group to stardom. But Anita was also a writer, producer, business mogul and feminist activist—a proud supporter of women’s rights and committed to advancing racial justice and civil rights. Throughout her career, she blazed a trail for women artists, particularly Black women artists, on stage and behind the scenes. Anita Pointer changed the game both on and off the stage through her involvement in the civil rights and Black Power movements in the Bay Area in the ’60s.
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Reps. Bush (sixth from left), Maloney, Moore, Kaptur and Chu, alongside ERA advocates, including Ellie Smeal (right), president of Feminist Majority. (Courtesy of Carolyn Maloney).
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BY THE TEAM | Late afternoon on Wednesday, Dec. 21, feminist leaders and congressional members marched from the House steps to the Senate to demand a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. In response, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) promised he’d bring it up for a Senate vote before April of 2023. (Click here to read more) |
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Abortion rights activists march to the White House on on Jul. 9, 2022, to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end federal abortion rights protections. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) |
BY HANNAH PHELPS | To ring in the new year, we asked a few of our favorite feminists—reproductive justice advocates, scholars, legal minds, voting rights activists, Ms. staffers and environmental justice experts—what they are wishing for in 2023.
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