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Tracee Ellis Ross, Ryan Destiny, & Anderson .Paak Star In PATTERN Beauty’s Silkiest Launch Yet

Summer is slowly coming to a close. In other words, many of us are starting to trade in our protective styles and curly crowns for sleek blo…

EssenceAug 13breakthroughs

South Africa Names Gender Apartheid. Now It Should Act.

Click to expand Image Participants hold signs during a gender-based violence protest at the forecourt of the botanical gardens in Johannesbu…

Human Rights WatchAug 13global

Want to Protect the Vote? Become a Poll Worker

For months now, hundreds of active and caring friends and supporters have been writing and calling us with a version of the same question: I…

Ms. MagazineAug 13politics

The Ritual Report: How This ‘Girl Dinner’ Helped Me Reclaim My Feminine Health

ESSENCE Senior Beauty & Style Editor Akili King believes ‘glow’ is more than skin deep. In The Ritual Report , she shares personal healing p…

EssenceAug 13resilience

The WNBA ‘felt like a lifeline’ for LGBTQ+ fans. Anti-trans attacks are testing that refuge.

Irene Vázquez found the WNBA at just the right time. It was the summer of 2020, and emergency pandemic guidelines had kept them physically s…

The 19thAug 13lgbtq

The Right to an Abortion Doesn’t Actually Pay for An Abortion (Podcast)

In this solo episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy asks what it means to protect abortion rights on paper when people can’t afford to use th…

Rewire News GroupAug 13politics

Afghanistan: Taliban Forcibly Disappear 6 Rights Workers

(New York, August 12, 2026) – Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Wo…

Human Rights WatchAug 13global

US: Federal Agencies Abandon Civil Rights Duties

Click to expand Image Demonstrators hold signs in support of voting rights outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on October 15, 20…

Human Rights WatchAug 13breakthroughs

Pakistan: Investigate Deaths of Woman, Girl in Police Custody

Human Rights WatchAug 13breakthroughs

Keeping Score: Trump Disapproval Hits a New Low; Continued ICE Violence; AOC on Freezing Her Eggs: ‘Don’t Be Weird About This’

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 ke…

Ms. MagazineAug 12choice

Meet Beverly Beal, Jr.: The Detroit IP Attorney Pouring Back Into Her City

In honor of Black Business Month , ESSENCE continues thoughtful conversations with changemakers charting their own course as entrepreneurs. …

EssenceAug 12resilience

People Think Anne Hathaway’s Pregnancy Is Fake, And It Highlights Awful Scrutiny About Women’s Bodies

This is not the first “bumpvestigation” targeting a powerful woman in the public eye.

HuffPost WomenAug 12health

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