Reverend Joan Bates Forsberg played a notable role in struggles for contraceptive access in the 1950s and 1960s and abortion […]
We Can Do Better Than the Suffragists
How many references to suffragists have you seen in the news lately? In April, the US Treasury announced that five […]
Housewives Against Dictatorship: The Bolivian Hunger Strike of 1978
On December 28, 1977 four women and fourteen children arrived at the offices of Archbishop Nelson Manrique in La Paz, […]
Protesting the ERA
Like many of my fellow Americans, I was glued to the television on election night. After months of the media […]
Emotion and Fantasy: Marcus Garvey and a Blueprint for Modern Protest Movements
Here’s a trivia question: what was the largest African American organization in history? Hint: It wasn’t the NAACP, not SNCC […]
More Than Sponges: Children’s Letters to Presidents and “Go Back to Africa”
Standing Rock. #BlackLivesMatter. Periods for Pence. Women’s March on Washington. Political demonstrations have dominated the headlines this year. With the […]