This year, I ran for a seat on Illinois’ Cook County Board of Commissioners in the second largest county in the U.S., which includes the city of Chicago. It’s a district that is larger than 28 states. I made national headlines in this era of a record number of first-time female candidates: At 20, I…
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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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A snippet of video on Twitter suggests Liuba Grechen Shirley’s kids had a pretty good time at Thursday’s Federal Election Commission hearing. Their mom, though, may just have had a better one: In a groundbreaking unanimous decision, the commissioners of the FEC ruled Grechen Shirley can use campaign funds to defray the costs of child…
Read moreEver since Oprah’s Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech at the 2018 Golden Globes, the rallying cry from the masses has been one insisting that she take her powerful rhetoric to the campaign trail and run for President of the United States in the next election. Throughout the speech, Oprah mentioned her support of the…
Read moreThe #Gamergate cyberattack against Brianna Wu, in which an Internet mob terrorized the software engineer after she spoke out against sexism and misogyny in the gaming industry, was tactically elegant in its launch and spectacularly cruel in its delivery. At its height in 2014, she saw her home address and personal information scrawled across the…
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Kinya Claiborne, the founder and editor-in-chief of STYLE & SOCIETY magazine thought that the Route 91 Harvest festival would be the perfect way to celebrate her thirty-seventh birthday—complete with close friends and her favorite country music artists. Instead, it turned into an unthinkable nightmare. On Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on concertgoers, killing…
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