When producer and correspondent Allana Harkin pitched her latest segment idea to the team at Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, she says eyebrows were raised. “Everyone’s looking at me like, ‘Allana, where’s the fun part,’” Harkin told Glamour. The pitch? To cover Ireland’s historic abortion referendum. “All I did was throw up my hands, like,…
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On Friday, voters in Ireland took to the polling stations to cast their ballots on whether the country should repeal the eighth amendment of its constitution, which effectively bans abortions. Results for the referendum started coming in on Saturday—by the afternoon, the final vote was at 66.4 percent for the repeal and 33.6 percent against—and…
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Three years ago this week, I cried with joy as I sat in my New York apartment and watched the country I grew up in make joyous, beautiful, progressive history with a national referendum that ultimately allowed us to become the first country in the world to grant into law gay marriage. On Friday, May…
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Before Black Panther celebrated the all-female freedom fighters of Wakanda, real-life black women formed their own type of special-forces unit in Alabama. When a whopping 98 percent of African American women voters united behind Doug Jones, they were able to elect him as the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate in more…
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