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Wiccan war widows have prevailed in a 10-year struggle to have the VA accept their religion’s pentacle as a headstone symbol in U.S. military cemeteries. Fifth in a series on women changing religious institutions and practices.
Increasingly, women are becoming full owners and operators of farms in the United States, especially on smaller, organic farms.
Real witches don’t spend Halloween sailing around the bright autumn moon on their broomsticks. Instead, they dress up for Samhain–the ancient Celtic celebration of the change of seasons, spirituality, energy, and, of course, goddesses.
A documentary that will air tonight on PBS explores the unsolved killings of young women on the Texas-Mexico border. Also: Nigerian woman’s death-by-stoning sentence upheld.
On this Memorial Day, countless Native American families will remember their grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who served in the United States armed forces–even without an official record of their service.
As one part of its public policy agenda, Lifetime Television, a cable network for women, is pushing laws for the prosecution of rapists. Oxygen, with a similar target audience, encourages support for women running for elected office.
An Afghan-born and Long Island-raised photographer asked recent women immigrants to don the borqa for a photo shoot and then show their faces to the world. The results are a dramatic exhibit now on view at the American Museum of Natural History.
A leader for the 25 women firefighters among 11,500 men, Lt. Brenda Berkman was one of the first on the scene on Sept. 11. In the 1980s, she was another kind of hero. She sued and won the right for her and other women to work as firefighters.
Amy Sancetta, a veteran AP sports photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner, captured not only the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack, but also the poignant fliers for missing persons and the generosity of small-town America.
A chaplain on ground “consecrated with the dead” touched, helped and comforted rescue workers and rescue dogs. Some workers feared that lack of physical remains, only ash, meant souls would not go to heaven. Some said God didn’t–couldn’t–exist.