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When an elected district attorney in Ohio can’t see that Ariel Castro’s gender-based crimes are civil rights violations, it’s hard to hope that our legal system will do much to prevent such horrifying crimes from continuing.
Instead of buying into the media’s portrayal of her mugging as a sign of the decline of black youth, Rosa Parks continued to cultivate youth leadership, says Jeanne Theoharis in this excerpt of “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.”
Women were active in the human and civil rights movements of the 19th and 20th centuries but very few were given leadership credit. A traveling exhibit that arrives in New York in February is trying to shake that.
As nursing mothers celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, a women’s rights attorney says more states need to pass laws specifically protecting this natural practice that benefits infants, mothers and thus the community.