Before dawn on Carnival Monday, Yvette Noel-Schure stands at the Botanical Gardens Roundabout in St. George’s, Grenada, wearing a black bodysuit, her skin coated first in baby oil and then charcoal, a cow-horn helmet on her head.
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Find ResourcesPresident Donald Trump is trying to create a role for the president in running and overseeing elections. That’s not how the Constitution works. The effort to interfere with the November midterms isn’t
Thanks to the renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem , NY, Black women have yet another reason to feel proud. Currently celebrating their 100th year, the historic space just
Indian daughters inherit more than family stories and cultural traditions. They inherit expectations, too: be humble, keep the peace, don’t take up too much space. But in Lotus Leadership, Kamini Rama
The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with its plan to use a modified centralized database to verify voters’ citizenship. In a seven-page opinion iss
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An actor learns early that the body can become public property. Someone is always looking: a director assessing how you occupy the frame, a stylist deciding what flatters you, an audience developing i
As Justice Samuel Alito has said , there are “some people who have nothing better to do than count Supreme Court laughs.” True enough: Last September, I did just that, tallying the number of “laughs”
This fact sheet summarizes federal, state, and local policies on paid family and medical leave and paid sick leave.
[Newsletter ad — view on SCOTUSblog] This week may have fallen within the Supreme Court’s summer recess, but it wasn’t exactly restful for the justices – or for the team behind this newsletter. There
When it comes to our bodies, there are no stupid questions—just bad sex ed, writes sex columnist Martha Kempner. I’ve been a sex educator for more than 25 years, and in that time, I have gotten some p
This issue brief answers some key questions about abortion in the United States and presents data collected before and new data that has been published since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
“My new ob/gyn intake form doesn’t have anywhere to mention my hysterectomy, so I’m gonna act just as surprised when she can’t find it.”
