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1 day ago · A teacher who carried a placard at a pro-Palestinian protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has been found not guilty of a racially-aggravated public-order offence.
2 hours ago · Photo uploaded with permission of the National Nineteenth Amendment Society. Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859 [1] – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. [2]
2 hours ago · Norway: Women are allowed to teach in the rural elementary school system (in the city schools in 1869). [23] New Zealand: Married women allowed to own property (extended in 1870). [9] United States, New York: New York's Married Women's Property Act of 1860 passed. [58] Married women granted the right to control their own earnings. [28]
6 hours ago · Katy Perry's speech at the 2024 VMAs gave an unfortunate amount of performative feminism. This year, Katy took home the Video Vanguard award. In celebration, she gave a performance compiled of her greatest hits, as well as some songs from her upcoming album 143. After the performance, she accepted her award onstage from fiancé Orlando Bloom.
1 day ago · Following upon legislation passed in 1990 for the National Park Service to perform a special resource study of the Underground Railroad, [179] in 1997, the 105th Congress introduced and subsequently passed H.R. 1635 – National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998, which President Bill Clinton signed into law that year. [180]
1 day ago · Even in this environment, black Mississippians continued to be elected to local office. However, black residents were deprived of all political power after white legislators passed a new state constitution in 1890 specifically to "eliminate the nigger from politics", according to the state's Democratic governor, James K. Vardaman. [37]
2 hours ago · Tour | The White Buffalo. Track to get concert, live stream and tour updates. Upcoming Dates Past Dates. Fri, SEP 13. World Cafe Live - Downstairs. Philadelphia, PA. RSVP. Tickets. Sat, SEP 14.
