In 1984, when my brother came down with the mysterious disease that came to be called AIDS, the diagnosis was a death sentence; today it is a disconcerting and traumatic, but not fatal, surprise. Th...
When NBC nightly news execs got the ratings for February and could sense ABC nosing ahead, they decided to do something drastic. They hired a woman.
“Nightly News with Brian Williams” had maintain...
Because of her love of large white artic animals and fear for their future, a woman will host a rally April 15 at the Polar Bear Exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo. In Tucson, three young women have pl...
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking which candidate are Americans more ready for, a white woman or a bla...
When Pushpita Alam began interviewing candidates for a fellowship program in Bangladesh teaching working-class women to be journalists, she looked for personal strength and the determination to exce...
The account below is compiled from testimony given at the courts martial of Paul Cortez and James Barker, from accounts of the Article 32 Hearing and other court proceedings in the cases, and from previous WMC and newspaper reports. Former Pfc. Steven Green, Pfc. Jesse Spielman and Pfc. Bryan Howard are still awaiting trial. References to them are to alleged actions on their part according to the above sources.
Sandwiched between International Women’s Day on March 8 and the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 19 is another date that marks a tragic nexus of the two: the day one year ago when 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi was stalked, gang-raped, shot in the head and her corpse burned in her own home in Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Four U.S. soldiers and one former soldier are charged with the crimes committed March 12, 2006.
A friend of mine is turning 50 today.
Our friendship was brief but intense. I didn’t get invited to her glitzy celebrity and fashion-hype parties. We don’t run in the same circles any longer.
Al...
Is he black enough? Is he black enough? Is he black enough? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
As a biracial person, I too, like Senator Barack Obama, have known the pain of rejection by th...
“A woman’s perspective is exactly what’s needed when tackling plays about aggression, warfare and political upheaval,” says director Eleanor Holdridge. “In Shakespeare, there’s an intrinsic sense of...
Update: Augustine Aguayo was convicted of missing movement and of desertion and sentenced to eight months in prison. Because he has already served nearly six, he is likely to be released in less tha...
The first feminist political uproar of 2007 was not about Hillary Clinton but about two, relatively unknown-to-the-mainstream stars of the feminist blogosphere. Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon and Melis...