Mary C. Curtis
Bio:
Mary C. Curtis, political columnist at Roll Call and NBCBLK, is an award-winning journalist, educator, and speaker. She has contributed to NBC News, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Root, and MSNBC, and talks politics on WCCB-TV in Charlotte, N.C. She was national correspondent for AOL’s Politics Daily and covered the 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. Her coverage specialty is the intersection of politics, culture, and race. Curtis, who was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, is also a Senior Facilitator with The OpEd Project, at Yale University, Cornell University, and the Ford Foundation. Curtis has contributed to several books, including an essay in Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox. You can find her work at maryccurtis.com and follow her on Twitter @mcurtisnc3.
Women's Equality Day marks the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, when US women won the right to vote. Mary C. Curtis reminds us that the fight for this right is ongoing.
As the Emanuel Church shooting makes painfully clear, the young generation has learned many of the same lessons about race as their elders.
The campaign to put a woman’s face on the $20 bill has provoked both support and skepticism. Mary C. Curtis considers: is it a good idea?