When T. Morgan Dixon was teaching high school history in Atlanta in the early 2000s, she encountered an alarming statistic: half of all black girls in America born after the year 2000 would be diagnosed with Type II diabetes in their lifetime unless a change was made to activity levels. Inspired to do something about…
Read moreOn the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March, the march’s founders put together an impressive program to galvanize the resistance heading into year two of the Trump presidency. Set in Las Vegas—Nevada being a critical battleground state in the midterm elections—the Women’s March: #PowertothePolls event brought women from all over the country together to launch…
Read moreAs was to be expected from Twitter’s resident truth bomb-dropper, Chrissy Teigen has upheld her signature no-holds-barred honesty throughout her second pregnancy. Since she and husband John Legend announced in November that they are currently expecting their second child, the supermodel/cookbook author has kept her millions of followers abreast of every pregnancy-related headache, swollen body…
Read moreA decade after singing about being an independent woman who refuses to let men dictate her life in songs like “Goodies” and “That’s Right,” Ciara is under fire for reposting a video on Twitter in which a pastor seemingly reduces women to nothing but wives and girlfriends — as if a woman’s worth can only…
Read moreJessica Chastain knows there’s a problem for women in Hollywood. Well, besides the sexual harassment. And the pay disparities. And the inane red carpet questions. OK—Jessica Chastain knows there are a lot of problems for women in Hollywood. But this week on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she wanted to talk about one in…
Read more“I don’t really do films set in the modern day because the female characters nearly always get raped,” Keira Knightley told Variety earlier this week. In the interview, the actress was asked if production companies are backing more female-dominated stories, to which she declared that it’s slowly getting better. “I’m suddenly being sent scripts with…
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