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Tuesday 9 May

  • A Mother’s Day Report Card: The Best - And Worst - Countries to Be a Mother (10:08) - Now this is interesting, the US and the UK are tied for 10th place on this list. Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers 2006 report takes a closer look at the inextricable link between the health and survival... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Friday 14 April

  • Black Like Who? (10:07) - This is a very interesting article. I particularly liked the following: "I can't watch BET's videos," she says. "Can't take it. Can't stand it. VH1 Soul, I can leave that on all day long, and I'm never going to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Wednesday 12 April

  • Helping A Sister In Need: Join a Prayer Circle for a Sister Author (12:16) - NiaOnline columnist Stephanie Stokes Oliver and Essence Magzine Editor Susan L. Taylor are asking for a prayer circle to send love and light to an author, Bebe Moore Campbell. Bebe was recently diagnosed with a neurological condition of the brain... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
  • Amen, Amen, Amen -- Ain't I A Woman? (09:32) - I could not agree more with Jill Nelson and her commentary On the Verge: Sisters Under Attack. She sums up much of what I've been feeling, reading and seeing in the media lately. Particularly, as the media and others have... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 21 March

  • Human Rights Group Condemns Islamists And The Metropolitan Police (10:01) - 21-March-2006 Benjamin Cohen The fifth annual Peter Tatchell Human Rights Fund meeting was held in London last night despite the pulling out of the guest speaker, the liberal Islamic theologian, Sheikh Dr Muhammad Yusuf due to death threats. Instead the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments
    • Wednesday 1 March

  • Interesting Reading (10:36) - Sista over at "Black Lesbians Say What" makes some interesting observations in her article entitled "queer vs. nigger/nigger vs. queer."  I wish I had more time to comment and respond but, for now, you've got to read this.  Particularly, what... | 0 Comments
  • Okay, This is Pissing Me Off! (10:24) - From Blackfeminism.org:A Chicago woman could be jailed for contempt of court for refusing to watch a video of her rape. If she doesn’t change her mind, the judge in her rape case might also drop the charges against one of... | 0 Comments
    • Wednesday 15 February

  • Hayek Helps Groups Aiding Battered Women (11:37) - No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone."-- Actress Salma Hayek, who made donations to groups aiding battered women in her native Mexico. The Associated Press, Feb. 15.... | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 14 February

  • Documenting Abuse Of Women (13:05) - Two inspiring women have dared to step into realms where many have feared to tread – the area of abuse/violence against women.  These women have dared to take what was once private and have brought it out, into the... | 0 Comments
    • Friday 10 February

  • Have You Hugged A Young Sister Today? (05:52) - Kudos to Genia over at SistersTalk for bringing us this one:The AP recently reported: The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released by John Walters, the national drug policy director, indicates 1.5 million girls ages 12 to 17 started... | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 7 February

  • Now This Brings It Home (09:26) - Struggle bonds women: `We were all sisters'The sisterhood of civil rights women cemented their friendships through a collective struggle and as caretakers of the legacies of their slain husbands.BY AUDRA D.S. BURCHaburch@MiamiHerald.com Evelyn Lowery struggles to remember the meeting, the... | 0 Comments
    • Monday 6 February

  • This Has Been A Hard Week -- Betty Friedan Dies (14:56) - Wow, what a week and what loss we have experienced.  One of America's most famous feminist thinkers and writers, Betty Friedan, has died at the age of 85. She was best known for her book The Feminine Mystique, which helped... | 0 Comments
    • Tuesday 31 January

  • We All Knew This Right? (11:00) - Appalling new evidence reveals that female soldiers serving in Iraq made fatal decisions in their attempts to avoid rape.In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander... | 0 Comments
    • Sunday 18 December

  • A Woman I Admire -- Constance Rice (17:55) - Connie Rice is a woman I very much admire.  I remember listening to her speak many years ago at a conference and what I came away with that day is the knowledge of a woman who puts everything – her... | 0 Comments
    • Monday 21 November

  • No White 'Vagina Monologues' Actresses Wanted (10:35) - Oh No Mr. Bill! Compiled by the DiversityInc staff© 2005 DiversityInc.com®November 21, 2005 Producers of the "Vagina Monologues" at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have made mistakes when they discouraged white women from auditioning, according to FoxNews.com. Being... | 0 Comments
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