It’s been quite the winning streak for record-shattering gymnast Simone Biles: Last month, she became the first woman gymnast to land a certain kind of super-difficult vault in competition—and now, the 21-year-old has just made history two days in a row at this year’s world gymnastics championships in Doha, Qatar. On Thursday night, Biles became…
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Longtime sports journalists Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm will make history this week as the first female duo ever to call an NFL game as part of Amazon Prime Video’s newest streaming efforts. Amazon has announced it will offer “Thursday Night Football” for Prime customers, and they’ve tapped Kremer and Storm to provide commentary and…
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Given that it’s 2018, it’s a little surprising to realize that the United States still has no national women’s history museum, nor is there any such building currently under construction. But the nonpartisan National Women’s History Museum organization, founded in 1996, is trying to change that: Members and potential donors gathered on Saturday for a…
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Since they began, the MTV Video Music Awards has been the embodiment of the phrase “anything goes”: in 1984, Madonna delivered the first-ever VMA performance with a rendition of her hit “Like A Virgin” wearing a white wedding dress and suggestively rolling around on stage, which—at the time—wasn’t only shocking but downright scandalous. Fast forward…
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Over the past few years, Gabrielle Union has been an open book about her fertility struggles. In her 2017 memoir, she wrote about how she’s had “eight or nine” miscarriages throughout her life—most recently with her husband, Dwayne Wade—and she likened her body to a “prisoner” of trying to get pregnant. But now, at the…
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History. Made. Again. Women candidates ran up the score in primaries across four states Tuesday, breaking more new ground in an election year that’s already shattering records. Vermont became the first state to make a transgender woman a major-party nominee for governor. Minnesota might send the country’s first Somali-American lawmaker to Congress. Connecticut voters may…
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