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When Divya Mathur’s team puts a brand no one has heard of on REVOLVE, it sells through at roughly 90 percent full price. In a crowded marketplace where the conventional response is to spend louder—big
Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Happy June! Happy Pride! Happy Caribbean-American Heritage Month! Happy summer!
A woman is suing an Illinois hospital and OBGYN after allegedly being denied care for her ectopic pregnancy — a condition that can be life-threatening without quick treatment that involves terminating
Happy Pride! It’s my favorite time of year: the sun is shining, the queers are coming out of hibernation, my social calendar is filled to the brim with drag fundraisers and gay dance parties, the new
It’s June 1. The official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic , Statehood Day for both Kentucky and Tennessee , and Oscar the Grouch Day . It’s also the beginning of what is likely to be the fin
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Welcome to June – for SCOTUSblog, the busiest month of the year. At the Court On Thursday, the justices met in a private conference to discuss cases and vote on petitions for review . Orders from that
This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani and Mariel Padilla of The 19th , and republished through Rewire News Group ‘s partnership with the 19th News Network. Our Sister’s House used to s
—President Trump lost his latest appeal effort against paying New York writer E. Jean Carroll an $83.3 million defamation judgment after denying he sexually assaulted her and calling her a liar The po
On Friday, in response to a lawsuit brought by Democracy Forward, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s “anti-weaponization” fund—which would have directly funded the work of antiabortion
Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Essence By Mecca Pryor · Updated May 29, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… The Essence Festival of Culture 2026 is happening July 3 – July 5. Don’t mi
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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
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America is in a dating crisis. Online dating is a multi-billion dollar industry , but young people are growing pessimistic about it . A 2024 study commissioned by the dating app Tinder found that 91 p
As another domestic violence homicide-by-strangulation in the Punjabi Sikh community went largely unreported outside the community itself, we are reminded of how often opportunities for intervention a
Each week, Rewire News Group editors scour headlines nationwide—from lawsuits over abortion access to LGBTQ+ rights—to bring you the most urgent news in reproductive justice. Here’s this week’s latest
Believe it or not, Supreme Court justices sometimes have jury duty. Justice Sonia Sotomayor “was among the nearly 250 city residents who reported for jury duty at the D.C. Superior Court” on Tuesday,
The condition formerly known as polycystic ovarian syndrome, commonly referred to as PCOS, has a new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. PMOS, as it’s now called, is a set of signs and sym
SANDPOINT, Idaho — An anti-abortion pregnancy center on the outskirts of this Idaho Panhandle town greets visitors with an abridged Bible verse painted on the wall of its waiting area: “Come to me & I
Adrian Moore was sharing a blanket with his friends, watching the sun come up over Morton Ranch High School before the first day of his senior year. Parents and teachers milled among the teenagers, ov
A lecture and discussion were about to begin in a local public library. It could have been a scene in New York, London or Melbourne. Yet this event was in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, just 25 kilometers fro
“One in three Americans are under-babied,” said Trump’s Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Oz last week, echoing JD Vance’s contempt for childless women as “cat ladies.” Guided by evangelical supporters,
Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of a “swatting” incident – a false call reporting gunshots intended to provoke a response from law enforcement officials – on Wednesday night, according to a r
The Trump administration’s obsession with diversity, equity and inclusion has moved far beyond rhetoric. It is now reshaping how women’s stories get told, whose health crises are allowed to be named,
Readers respond to an article by Roe McDermott saying that women don’t need laws to make them ‘reflect’ on their choices Well done to Roe McDermott for saying what is rarely said – that abortion doesn
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What I experienced during my 2014 run for office wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me. The year before, I had run for president of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), a national political party office r
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How to Counter 10 False Narratives About Abortion in an Age of Misinformation Misinformation about abortion care is rampant and being…
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s wrongful death law. The minis
Our Sister’s House used to staff a 24-hour hotline. No matter what time of day a domestic violence survivor called for help, an advocate would be able to help them stay safe. But then a lack of fundin
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By India Espy-Jones · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In just over one month, your flight will touch down in New Orleans for the 2026 Essence Festival of Culture .
In subway stations and under the shade of trees across New York City, Allison Julien met with domestic workers. She wanted to talk to them about their basic rights — the ones they’d been denied for de
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Republicans are focusing on one question in one of November’s top races: Is the Democrat a real man? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched the GOP’s nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday ni
Attacks on the legitimacy of U.S. elections are no longer confined to conspiracy theories circulating online—they are increasingly shaping government action at the local level. In Riverside County, Ca
There is no shortage of cases of torture in the headlines. Across today’s crises—from Ukraine to Sudan, Myanmar to Gaza—the allegations are graphic and devastating. But once a legal case closes or the
Click to expand Image A woman is detained by US federal agents after exiting a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, on September 3, 2025. © 2025
(Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) By Shelby Stewart · Updated May 27, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… In a decisive primary runoff victory Tuesday night, Christian Menefee sec
Media Mentions How doctors will handle abortions if mifepristone telehealth access is banned By Scientific American | May 27, 2026 Share https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-doctors-will-han
By ESSENCE Editors · Updated May 27, 2026 The post Chef Kardea Brown Had To Get Creative In The Kitchen After Husband’s Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis appeared first on Essence .
The U.S. Supreme Court (unlike some ) does not divide its docket between civil and criminal cases. So I do . With about five weeks left in the current Supreme Court term, it’s time for a quick update
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At the administrative assistants’ conference, everyone wants to talk about AI. Among the workers who are most likely to have a hard time finding a new job if AI takes theirs, 86 percent are women , a
So hey, Missouri. It’s me. AngryBlackLady. You probably knew I was coming. I’ve been writing open letters to you since 2015. I’ve written five of these now, if you’re counting, which I am, because I h
By Elizabeth Ayoola · The post Jazmine Sullivan Popped Out In A Latex Catsuit And The Internet Is Obsessed With Her Stunning Transformation appeared first on Essence .
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This story is part of a five-part investigative podcast series, “ Dying on The Inside: Women Lifers at Muncy Prison ,” produced by Create Genius Media and Temple University Klein College’s Logan Cente
The numbers are staggering: Between 2024 and 2025, death threats against abortion providers more than doubled. Stalking incidents more than doubled. Clinic blockades surged by 500 percent. There were
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