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NEWSFLASH: Football’s Ray Rice Reinstated by NFL
Running back Ray Rice, who knocked out his fiancée with a punch in an elevator in February, has been reinstated by the National Football League after a judge accepted his appeal of an indefinite...
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NEWSLASH: Pregnant Workers’ Rights Hit the Supreme Court
On Dec. 3, the Supreme Court of the United States began hearing oral arguments in Peggy Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., a case that will affect pregnant workers across the nation. While a...
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NEWSFLASH: Chicago Approves Minimum Wage Hike
It can only go up from here. On Tuesday, in an effort to pull working families out of poverty, Chicago’s City Council approved a minimum wage hike, increasing the hourly wage of some 410,000 workers...
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NEWSFLASH: U.S. Workers Strike in 160 Cities
Fast-food workers are holding strikes in 160 cities today, calling for a $15 minimum wage and the right to unionize. For the first time, these workers are joined by airport baggage handlers, skycaps,...
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Surprise, Surprise: Increased Contraceptive Use Leads to Fewer Unintended...
Who would have guessed? Increased use of contraceptives is accompanied by a decline in abortions and unintended pregnancies, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute. Researchers found...
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NEWSFLASH: Sen. Barbara Boxer Won’t Run for Reelection
One of the most stalwart supporters of women’s rights in the U.S. Senate has announced in an interview with her grandson that she will retire from office at the end of her term in 2016. Sen. Barbara...
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Top 5 Feminist Moments in the State of the Union
Expectations were high for President Obama’s sixth State of the Union address, and he did not disappoint. He managed to tackle a myriad of issues that impact women and families, from reproductive...
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Marissa Alexander Is a Free Woman!
Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman who spent the last three years behind bars for firing a warning shot at her abusive husband, has finally been released from prison. She will spend the next two...
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Philly Workers Finally Get Paid Sick Days
Yesterday Philadelphia became the 20th location in the U.S. to enact a law guaranteeing that workers can earn paid sick days (in this case, one hour for every 40 worked). It’s the third time the...
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Activists Stay the Course Against Trade Deal
Activists opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade deal currently being negotiated by the U.S. and 10 other Pacific Rim nations, gathered in a park across the street from the Beverly...
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NEWSFLASH: DOJ Finds Rampant Racial Bias Among Ferguson Police
While the Department of Justice has chosen not to bring criminal charges against Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson—who fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown last year—the DOJ has...
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NEWSFLASH: Biden Announces Millions to End Rape Kit Backlog
Vice President Joe Biden joined Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland Monday to announce that $41 million in funding from the federal budget will be used to test backlogged rape kits sitting in storage...
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NEWSFLASH: Gym Classes Opened to Saudi Girls
For the first time, schools in Saudi Arabia will offer gym classes to girls. As the country’s obesity rate for women and young people climbs, many welcome the change. “I think it’s a big deal because...
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NEWSFLASH: Supreme Court Protects Pregnant Workers
If a business already accommodates workers who have temporary disabilities, they can’t refuse to accommodate a pregnant employee. And they can’t use cost as an excuse. That’s essentially what the U.S....
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NEWSFLASH: First-Ever Woman Sentenced for Feticide
This week, 33-year-old Purvi Patel became the first woman in the United States to be convicted and sentenced on a feticide charge. Patel was arrested in the summer of 2013 after she sought medical...
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NEWSFLASH: New Legislation Would Protect Military Whistleblowers
On Thursday, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) along with Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) introduced legislation that would protect military...
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NEWSFLASH: Activists Stage #BlackWomenMatter Marches
Baltimore Chief Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby charged six officers today in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who died last month from a spinal cord injury while in police...
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NEWSFLASH: Mary Washington Students Bring Title IX Case
On Thursday morning, University of Mary Washington (UMW) campus group Feminists United—an affiliate of the Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms.)—and individual students filed a Title IX...
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NEWSFLASH: Ohio Pro-Choice Activists Protest Anti-Abortion Bills
On the front steps of the Ohio Statehouse yesterday, around 150 feminists, community activists and reproductive rights advocates mounted a pro-choice protest organized by local chapters of the National...
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NEWSFLASH: Campus Sexual Assault Complaints Are on the Rise
Reports of sexual violence on college campuses are on the rise, according to new data compiled by the Department of Education. In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) released by her office...
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