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Celebrate Black Joy: This Week’s Best Uplifting Moments

Happy Summer! These days, it is easy to feel like the world is on fire: all of our bills are too high , we’re at war with Iran , the governm…

EssenceAug 2activism

Data Reveals An Infuriating Reason Women Over 40 Are Held Back At Work

A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.

HuffPost WomenAug 2breakthroughs

'It Means Everything': Women's Professional Baseball League Makes Thrilling Debut

The rainy debut marked the start of America’s first women’s professional baseball league in almost three decades.

HuffPost WomenAug 2equality

A Decade After Hillary Clinton’s Historic Presidential Run, the DNC Is Fighting Over Ranked-Choice Voting

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and ent…

Ms. MagazineAug 1politics

Howard University Reinstates 200+ Freshmen After Enrollment Crisis

The Howard University Class of 2030 disenrollment matter continues to unfold. Earlier this week, the Washington, D.C. university interim pre…

EssenceJul 31education

August 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us

Each month, Ms. rounds up some of the most exciting new books by writers from historically marginalized communities—authors whose work too o…

Ms. MagazineJul 31resilience

Cherelle Griner Deserves Her Flowers

Brittney Griner has filed for divorce from her wife, Cherelle , after eight years of marriage, and I, for one, am shook. Per TMZ , the WNBA …

EssenceJul 31global

The Kids Really Are All Right—But Opponents of Marriage Equality Won’t Admit It

Within days of Donald Trump's second inauguration, the administration began erasing LGBTQ+ people from federal websites, while Republican go…

Ms. MagazineJul 31lgbtq

The Trump Administration Is Rewriting Sex Education to Promote Parenthood

The Trump administration’s hormonal obsession rages on. Now, we are on to federal funding recommendations for teen pregnancy prevention and …

Ms. MagazineJul 31activism

The Insider Edit With Kimberly Pirtle

The Insider Edit is a curated list of pieces worth buying once and wearing forever. Auctioneer and tastemaker Kimberly Pirtle breaks down he…

EssenceJul 31global

Never Surrender: Empowered Wives Were Never the Problem

Over the past year, several women-focused articles in the New York Times declared feminism has gone too far, and put the onus on women to fi…

Ms. MagazineJul 31empowerment

5 Reasons The Nolan Wells Case Angers Me As The Mother of A Black Son

Somebody knows something. Someone knows what happened to Nolan Wells , the 18-year-old Mississippi college student who ventured to Horn Isla…

EssenceJul 31resilience

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