As President Obama stated last week, “as far as we’ve come, the fact is that from sports leagues to pop culture to politics, our society still does not sufficiently value women,” he said. “We still don’t condemn sexual assault as loudly as we should. We make excuses. We look the other way. The message that […]
Teen activist Madison Kimrey gave a powerful speech at the We Are Woman Constitution Day Rally on Saturday. She was one of many speakers including Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal and the National Organization for Women President, Terry O’Neill. Other notable speakers included Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen and Madison’s good friend – author Kimberley […]
Author of AMERICAN WOMAN The Poll Dance: Women and Voting Kimberley Johnson gave a powerful and entertaining speech at the We Are Woman Constitution Day Rally on Saturday. She was one of many speakers including Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal and the National Organization for Women president, Terry O’Neill. Other notable speakers included Maryland Congressman […]
A new craze is hitting the internet identified by the hashtag #BurnWhiteJesus. Otherwise known as the “White Jesus Picture Challenge,” it calls upon people to post online videos of themselves burning pictures depicting Jesus Christ as a white man. The religious education website Patheos writes, the challenge “seems to be a recognition that the common […]
On September 8, I wrote a letter to Janay Rice, responding to her Instagram post extolling the horrors she and her husband (former) Baltimore Raven running back Ray Rice have suffered over the exposure of his violent assault of her at a casino in Atlantic City earlier this year. My response was simply to the […]