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The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to let a lawsuit brought by a Tennessee man alleging that a website owned by entertainment giant Paramount Global violated a 1988 video privacy law when it
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell released a 203-page report on Sept. 30 showing more than 270 Catholic priests abused at least 1,000 children over several decades in the dioceses of Fall
What allegedly took place at Cornell was a preventable tragedy. One young man with the guts to say, “This is wrong!” might have stopped it from happening. It’s a crying shame that didn’t happen. But a
In every issue of Ms. , we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Ke
Earlier this year, SCOTUSblog published the first Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack, a statistical portrait of the Supreme Court’s interim/emergency/shadow docket for the 2024-25 term. Now that the 2025
It’s the only state this year where voters could reverse an abortion ban. With little national support, older women who never expected to be activists are powering the campaign. This story was origina
Voters are increasingly concerned about threats to their rights, democracy and the 2026 elections, a new national poll from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights shows. The 2026 Civil Ri
They were victims, not abusers. That’s what they told police officers, attorneys, visitors and anyone else who would listen. It didn’t matter. The women were all taken to a sprawling immigration deten
This story was reported in partnership with Uncloseted Media , an LGBTQ-focused investigative news outlet. On September 14, far-right influencer Chaya Raichik, known online as Libs of Tiktok, attacked
I grew up around women who were wed while they were still children. My grandmother was married at just 10 years old and my aunt at 16. At school, friends of mine married. I watched their schooling sto
Republicans running for governor across the country are backing away from abortion bans they once endorsed. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin, calls his state’s
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Click to expand Image Participants at the international Women's Day rally in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 8, 2022. © 2022 Stanislav Beketov During its October 6 review by the United Nations Committee on
Federal agents on Monday searched the Washington-area home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and member of the “Squad” who has been a frequent critic — and target — of Republican Pres
Michele Tafoya, who called herself a “first trimester gal” and hailed Roe v. Wade’s demise, seems to be gaslighting voters on her abortion stance.
Imagine a 4-year-old boy scraping his knee and starting to cry. What if his caregiver scolded, “Big boys don’t cry.” It still happens. We must intervene before boys get the message to toughen up and h
Hallie Shoffner grew up in the Arkansas Delta, left to earn a bachelor’s degree at Vanderbilt, then came home to become a farmer. She followed her parents into a business that had been in the family f
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On behalf of the Ipas Board of Directors, it is with a mix of admiration, appreciation and sadness, that I share the news that Ipas President and CEO, Anu Kumar, has announced that she will leave Ipas
On this day in 1932, President Herbert Hoover laid the cornerstone of the Supreme Court Building amid its construction. The court held its first session in the building three years later . At the Cour
Nevada became a hub for abortion care after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022—but now that trend is reversing. We asked experts why. Abortion is on the ballot in Nevada—again. For the second time in
MOSCOW, Idaho — Lisa Wirsching knocked on strangers’ doors. She collected petition signatures at the farmers’ market. She approached her neighbors, asking them if she could talk to them about Idaho’s
Kristen Clarke was just weeks into her job as the NAACP’s top lawyer this spring when the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc dealt what she described as the second of two “devastating blows” to the 196
Jovelle Tamayo/ProPublica. Source images: Zaydee Sanchez/ProPublica, Tina Russell for ProPublica, MPfoto71/Alamy. It wasn’t the kind of call a grocery store gets every day. A customer with a thick Eas
Click to expand Image Police detain protesters during a demonstration demanding the resignation of India's chief election commissioner, in New Delhi, India, October 10, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo/Manish Sw
Click to expand Image Local residents of Perşembe Plateau and representatives of environmental organizations stage a protest against gold mining exploration in the area, July 19, 2026. © 2026 Private
For too long, midlife symptoms of women have been minimized; our concerns dismissed, our suffering normalized and our voices overlooked. We reject the notion that hormonal decline is simply something
A candidate for the U.S. House in Florida and the hosts of an antiabortion podcast recently debated whether abortion bans should include exceptions for rape and incest. The candidate said he hoped peo
A dam has broken for women, stemming from the case of the Cornell student who was allegedly gang-raped at a fraternity in 2024. In the 1980s, Ms. published the first national study of sexual assault o
The Supreme Court Building is closed today for Columbus Day. In recognition of that, this is an abridged edition of SCOTUStoday. On Sept. 28, Amy, along with attorney Masha Hansford and reporter Greg
Plus, Maryland requires more in-depth mammogram reporting and the Department of Health and Human Services directs Title X funds to anti-abortion groups. Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour head
Click to expand Image Tags, with “Access blocked” and the name of blocked accounts belonging to journalists and media outlets, LGBT and women’s rights groups, and other rights defenders, are tied to t
Click to expand Image Renovated Dakar Railway station inaugurated, May 2026. © 2026 Human Rights Watch Senegal’s intensifying crackdown on LGBT people is violating their rights and causing
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in
Across the United States, teen pregnancy rates have fallen to historic lows—the result of decades of investment in evidence based prevention, improved access to information and sustained support for y
Last summer, our Girls Learn International chapter set out with a mission to support girls in finding their own voices to lead their communities on issues they cared about. We organized an internation
Zendaya closed out Paris Fashion Week’s spring/summer 2027 season on the Louis Vuitton front row, proving once again that the brand ambassador knows how to make a statement. With the help of her longt
Truth is, I’m tired. Not the kind of tired a good night’s sleep fixes, but the kind you feel in your muscles, the kind that has you ready to call it a night at 6 p.m. The kind of exhaustion where your
I told myself I’d stay out of the diaspora conversation happening online. The comment sections are full of vitriol and misinformation. But my purpose on these platforms is to counter exactly that, and
Every fall, Banned Books Week (Oct. 4-10, 2026) arrives with a familiar visual language: stacks of novels wrapped in caution tape, displays of frequently challenged classics and lists inviting readers
Olandria has long proven just how good bright pink blush looks on Black women. Now, as fall fully sets in, the Love Island star has her sights set on a new shade. “Red is my power color,” she tells ES
Tyler Perry is bringing some of gospel music’s biggest names together for his latest Netflix film, The Gospel of Christmas . Starring Fantasia Barrino Taylor and Durrell “Tank” Babbs , the upcoming ho
For Black Americans , the image of a Black person hanging from a tree is never just an image. It carries the weight of generations of racial terror, public lynchings and families who were denied justi
GRIMES, Iowa — Zach Lahn looked out into a crowded room of potential Iowa voters. When he spoke, it was no surprise that the Republican nominee led with the two issues he’d brought up most often on th
The justices heard oral arguments this week in four cases – and denied review in hundreds of others – as the 2026-27 term officially got underway. Additionally, a dispute on broadcasting rates for pol
“If you ever get the privilege of taking your elderly parents to the doctor please be forewarned your parents will straight up lie to the doctor”
Untangling rape culture is complicated. Teaching kids that you need permission to touch someone else’s body is not. The Cornell University rape case has spurred a renewed flurry of media attention to
Known as special K, key and K, ketamine is both a psychoactive club drug similar to acid or ecstasy and a promising option for treating depression or substance use disorder. With its dueling profile,
[The final installment of The Pipeline to Predator , a four-part Ms. investigation into the modeling industry’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and survivors’ fight for accountability.] The post What A
The decades-long Christian nationalist movement and second Trump administration have vigorously pushed tradwife ideology to encourage vulnerable young women to abandon their autonomy in favor of a pro
A 12-year-old child opens the curtains of a hotel room in Tempe, Arizona, where she, her mother and four siblings were staying earlier this year while experiencing homelessness. The room was funded in
Karlonda runs a business and raises two daughters, but losing after-school care means fewer hours to work and less money to cover the bills. Editor’s note: Front and Center is a groundbreaking series
I had the privilege of interviewing Robin Morgan this summer. It turned out to be her last ever interview, as it was only a few weeks for her death. On a hot afternoon in August, I arrived at Morgan’s
Lawyers for a group of transgender inmates in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that b
Breast cancer may be the most common form of cancer diagnosed among women in the U.S., after skin cancer, but there is some good news. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), more than 30 perc
Content warning: This story references incidents of sexual assault. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona, shared publicly for the first time that she was raped w
The Global Black Economic Forum (GBEF) and ESSENCE are bringing back Paint the Polls Black , a three-part virtual town hall series meant to help voters prepare for the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the or
There are hairstyles you try, and then there are hairstyles that become a part of who you are. For me, the pixie is the latter. Welcome to the first installment of Pixie Diaries , a new ESSENCE series
The lawyer representing the former Cornell student derided what he called “the views of women held by Neo Nazis, White Supremacists and Andrew Tate.”
The fight to keep our beloved HBCUs open and thriving continues. This time the battle is at Lincoln University of Missouri . A $549-million lawsuit in the Show-Me state is the latest boiling point in
