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When abortion was illegal, there was no organized, aggressive antiabortion movement with a wing of violent fanatics.

This latest episode is evidence that when athletes such as Ms. Osaka are told to refrain from commenting on racism or politics and instead to shut up and play, it has always included an unsaid caveat: “unless we stand to profit off your voice."

“[These companies are] here in our communities, extracting from the land, extracting from our women and just leaving us to deal with the aftermath, and they’re screaming about us.”

Last year, number of states that were categorized as hostile to abortion rights by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health policy think tank — including all of the states across the South: 29

A Georgia detention center with the second-highest COVID-19 rate in the nation recently expanded the population of immigrants it detains to include women.

"Her ordeal remains a flagrant miscarriage of justice."

“I don’t know at what point people will simply listen to abortion advocates because we’ve been the victim of this violence for decades,” Close said.

I am deeply disappointed to know that many, too many white women, approximately 57% of our total, need their whiteness so much that they dismiss everything non-white as less. The white women who voted for Trump in 2020 made a clear choice.

Trump’s appeal in Miami and Brooklyn, and election reflections from Thomas Frank and Henry Giroux