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VAWA Passes Senate, Turning Attention to House

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● February 12, 2013

With Senate passage assured ahead of time, focus falls on the 22 all-male GOP lawmakers who voted against passage. From here the bill moves to the real battleground in the House, where GOP ranks are at least somewhat divided.

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Algerian Women Test the ‘Arab Spring’ Winds

By Brahim Takheroubte ● Politics ● March 17, 2011

To appease “Arab spring” protesters, Algeria lifted a 1991 law that banned public assembly, but a longstanding women’s vigil for the country’s “disappeared” complains it doesn’t help them. Other political women debate the effects.

NYC Tests Brakes on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

By Rita Henley Jensen ● Health & Science ● November 26, 2010

New York City is considering following Baltimore in regulating what anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers can say in their ads and window signs. A recent hearing gave those opposed a chance to make their negative reaction clear.

Women of SNCC Recall Roles in Civil Rights Battles

By Judy Richardson ● Arts & Culture ● November 5, 2010

“Hands on the Freedom Plow” recounts stories of 52 women who were part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s. In this excerpt, Judy Richardson recalls the start of her three-year stint with what was called SNCC.

Poverty – Tales from the Recession’s Front Lines

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● September 20, 2010

The roots of Women’s eNews are embedded in the media’s coverage of the 1996 welfare law.

Improving black maternal health: a way

By Malena Amusa ● Health & Science ● May 28, 2010

Kudos to New Moms. Taking Care of Baby Is Not Like Riding a Bike.

By Kimberly Allers ● Uncategorized ● May 28, 2010

A few weeks ago I happily agreed to watch my girlfriend’s one year old son for about two days so she could take a work trip.

"I got this", I thought. Auntie Kim is on it! After all, it was only four years ago that I had a one year old. I figured getting back into the baby mode would be like riding a bike. It was more like getting hit by a bus!

Seeing My Slave Roots: Thinking of the Mothers Before Me

By Kimberly Allers ● Uncategorized ● May 28, 2010

Staring at the computer screen, I could barely make out the letters. But I will never forget what I heard. "These are likely the slave owners of your second great grandfather."

The very nice researcher from Ancestry.com had warned me when we sat down that she may have found some slave connections, but I figured, of course you would.

How is pregnancy and motherhood different for African American women?

By Womens Enews Staff ● Uncategorized ● May 28, 2010

If I had a dollar for every person who asked me, "How is pregnancy and motherhood different for African American women?" I’d be a very, very rich woman. Yes, the formula for pregnancy is the same for all women. Forty weeks=one baby. But the journey can be so much different. Our experience is different. Our stresses and anxieties are so different. And therein lies the rub.

Two Female Priests Buried as Church Outsiders

By Claire Bushey ● Arts & Culture ● May 28, 2010

Female Catholic priests, deemed excommunicate by Rome, buried two of their own this month, neither one in a Catholic cemetery. “They threw us away,” says a surviving member of Roman Catholic Womenpriests, which marked its first deaths.