Within the Civil RIghts Movement, Black women wielded a profound influence in sculpting the narrative of social justice. In the rhythmic beats of history, the Civil Rights Movement emerges as a ...

With a group called Women Strike for Peace, she helped organize demonstrations against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons.

Loretta Ross could feel the excitement in the Chicago hotel room, where she and 11 other Black women gathered during a health care conference in June 1994. That day, the women had felt their ...

At 2 p.m. every Wednesday, about 15 to 20 women who form a Mahila Panchayat, or Women’s Council, gather in a modest, dimly lit room in the Jehangirpuri area of the Indian capital city New Delhi, to ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.Y. — Author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage paved the way for the women’s rights movement and social progress in the U.S., all from her home in Fayetteville, New York.

ALBANY - A review of Court of Appeals nominee Jenny Rivera's scholarly writings portrays an attorney intensely proud of her Puerto Rican heritage and deeply concerned with social justice, women's ...

IN 1991, James Hunter of the University of Virginia wrote a book in which he argued that on the big moral issues of our time, such as abortion and homosexual rights, the nation divides into two groups ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland-based tee shirt company, Mimi’s Fresh Tees, is aiming to boost social justice causes and empower women. Portlander Kamelah Adams told KOIN 6 News she started the ...

When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...