Documentary filmmaking is never a job for the faint-hearted. Nevertheless, five separate works are currently in production that all focus in radically different ways on the women’s liberation moveme...
When Rita Henley Jensen arrived in New York City in 1977 and enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she had no idea how difficult it would be to get her stories about women...
It’s ironic, but outside of hospitals and day care centers, perhaps the best place to acquire some kind of illness on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was Michael Moore’s press conference on Capitol H...
Earlier this month, Governor Eliot Spitzer, flanked by New York state legislators, signed into law the strongest state anti-trafficking legislation in the country. Depending on the source—including ...
At first glance, the impact of the latest two mega-books on Hillary Clinton seems neutral if not mostly positive for her.
She appeared a relaxed, commanding figure in the second Democratic debate,...
Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins on former CBS anchor Dan Rather’s remarks that CBS is “dumbing it down and tarting it up,” referring to the current CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:
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In 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it should begin to include race as a factor in deciding which applicants to approve licenses for broadcast...
I first saw Company by Stephen Sondheim back in the 70s, when Elaine Stritch with her alcoholic rasp was singing “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch” and the whole show had a snooty, misogynistic qualit...
Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jordan after her photo appears on her brother’s friend’s cellphone. Muqadas Bibi’s throat...
When civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in 1963, more than 50,000 callers flooded WVON (1690 AM), then known as “Voice of the Negro”; so many callers, in fact, that they caused a meltdo...
Key congressional Democrats plan to take up the challenge by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to overturn what she called the court’s “parsimonious reading” of civil rights laws banning wag...