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Today at Ms. | February 2, 2023
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Men Should Think Twice When Entering a Race With Strong Women Candidates Already—Starting With Adam Schiff [[link removed]]
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Rep. Katie Porter (left) at an election night watch party on Nov. 8, 2022 in Costa Mesa, Calif. Porter has said she will run for the Senate spot that may be vacated by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (right). (Apu Gomes and Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has not yet announced her retirement, but that hasn’t stopped fellow Democrats from vying for her seat. After building a massive war chest over the past few years, Rep. Adam Schiff has announced his candidacy. But just because he can run doesn’t mean he should.
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Florida’s Rejection of African American Studies Reflects the Historical Fight for Black Education [[link removed]]
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Participants attend a Martin Luther King Day parade on Jan. 19, 2019, in Orlando, Fla. (Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
BY ASHLEY ROBERTSON PRESTON | Florida officials have rejected a new Advanced Placement (AP) course on African American studies, calling it “woke indoctrination” that “significantly lacks educational value.” But the modern figures and movements that the state board objects to are extensions of Black history. That history is the story of Black activism, the ongoing, centuries-old struggle for rights and freedoms in the United States—and African American studies as a field is itself rooted in that effort.
“We have the potential of raising an entire generation of Black children who will not be able to see themselves represented in their own state or in education.”
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War on Women Report: Republicans Propose 150 Anti-Trans Bills; Idaho Republican Says Women Are Like Cows; Trump Glosses Over His Role in the End of Roe [[link removed]]
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BY MICHELLE MOULTON | U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism is on the rise, and democracy is on the decline. But day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. The fight is far from over. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.
This month: Biden announces new immigration restrictions; Trump glosses over his role in the fall of Roe ; Greta Thunberg is detained; Idaho Republican Jack Nelsen wants everyone to know he knows a lot about women; protests erupt nationwide after the disturbing video of police assaulting Tyre Nichols is released; and more.
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Before Roe v. Wade , if you were in need of an abortion in Chicago, there was a number you could call, run by young women who called themselves Jane. They’d provide abortions to women who had nowhere else to turn. It was started by Heather Booth when she was 19 years old. In this episode, Booth joins Dr. Goodwin to discuss the history of the Jane Collective and the connections between our pre-Roe past and post-Roe future. Where do we go from here?
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