In May 2019, lawmakers in Alabama passed a wide-ranging abortion ban that would, among other things, punish doctors who performed the procedure on women at any stage of pregnancy with up to 99 years in prison. (A federal judge blocked the ban from taking effect in October 2019 until the matter is settled in the…
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On sleep: Since the second official day of the [impeachment] trial began, I’ve been getting up in the mornings at 5 a.m., get into the office at 9 a.m., and then leave the office at 7 p.m. and then continuing to work until it’s over at 1:30 a.m. from home. The schedule is that [the…
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At the end of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address—before he even stepped down from the dais—Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made her opinion of the speech clear. She seemed to rip one of the copies she had of it clean in two. While Trump spoke, Pelosi’s anger seemed to mount. At…
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New York is officially the second state to make it illegal for employers to discriminate against employees because of the way they wear their hair. Last week, Governor Andrew Cuomo passed Assembly Bill 07797, legislation that would “prohibit race discrimination based on natural hair or hairstyles.” This law will also impact previous efforts to curb…
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The first time I realized how much my hair had an impact on how others saw me, I was interviewing for my first real adult job. My friends and family helped me run through the checklist women—especially black women—have to be extra cognizant of about their appearance: What would I wear? How should I do…
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At the 2019 State of the Union, female lawmakers, all in white, stood out among the more traditionally-suited crowd—a result of a call from the Democratic Women’s Working Group to wear white to President Donald Trump’s address to the nation, as an homage to the women’s suffrage movement. (Some men in Congress pinned white ribbons…
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