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Toni Van Pelt Elected New President of National Organization for Women (NOW)
From NOW.org | July 1, 2017 Members of the National Organization for Women voted Saturday to elect Toni Van Pelt president of the organization. Gilda Yazzie was elected vice president. Van Pelt and Yazzie [...]
More Female Voices Must be Heard: New York Times Letters to the Editor
From the Huffingtonpost.com | June 16, 2017 By Linda Stein Part One: On Monday, January 2, 2017, the New York Times presented an all-male lineup in its Letters to the Editor section – not one female. [...]
Veteran feminists show they’re young at heart at reunion
From theVillager.com | June 15, 2017 By Mary Reinholz | Photos by Tequila MinskyThe pictures flashing across a wall inside Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village showed icons of the women’s liberation movement from the [...]
Report on the Feminist Reunion, June 10, 2017
On June 10, 2017 The Veteran Feminists of America held a feminist reunion in New York City at the famous progressive church, Judson Memorial, in Greenwich Village. As Barbara Love pointed out in her [...]
Veteran Feminists to Thump Trumpism at Judson Reunion
From the Villager.com | May 25, 2017 By Mary Reinholz Radical feminist Susan Brownmiller has plenty of room at the top in her West Village penthouse near the Meatpacking District. Outside on the terrace [...]
Suffragist Sue Shelton White honored in Jackson
From The Jackson Sun | May 26, 2017 By Brittney L Jackson Dozens gathered outside Jackson City Hall for the unveiling of the Sue Shelton White monument on Thursday afternoon. Born in Chester County [...]
Sister Joel Read, who shaped Milwaukee’s Alverno College and was among nation’s top college innovators, dies at 91
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | May 26, 2017 By Karen Herzog Sister Joel Read, the longtime leader of Alverno College whose vision of placing abilities over grades put her among the nation's top college innovators, died [...]
Obituary: Sister Joel Read 1925-2017
Former Alverno College President Sister Joel Read, SSSF, ’48, one of the nation’s longest-serving college presidents and a renowned advocate for education reform, died May 25. She was 91 years old. During her 35 [...]
She’s The Best Answer To Donald Trump You Never Heard Of
Angry? Worried? Disillusioned? Heather Booth wants you. By David Wood Heather Booth doesn’t look like a revolutionary. She sits demurely on a sofa, dressed simply in black, fingering a silver necklace. She speaks softly, [...]
Obituary: Judith Ellen Brady
April 26, 1937 - May 14, 2017 Judith (Judy) Brady, a well known feminist and activist, passed away in San Francisco on May 14th, 2017 at the age of 80, after a brief hospital [...]