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The theme for this year’s Black History Month is Black Women in American Culture and History, so this post will tell the story of a woman who went unknown for far too long. More than 60 years ago, in February 1951, a remarkable woman named Henrietta Lacks left the world a stunning legacy that may [...]

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We’re taking a short “blog-cation” this week. We’ll be back next Thursday, August 26, National Women’s Equality Day, with an update on a powerful and important story! In the meantime, here are links to some of our all-time most popular posts. Enjoy! Should Women Have Equal Rights? (June 2008) (Wo)man vs. Beast (August 2009) Madam [...]

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February 17–26 Support AAUW by Purchasing Powerful, New Book: Secrets of Powerful Women Vivid Living blog (Wednesday, Feb. 17) Bloggers are praising Secrets of Powerful Women, which features a chapter written by AAUW Public Policy Director Lisa Maatz. Freelancer Nancy Sharp called it “a jewel of a book that I want to recommend to women [...]

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AAUW has an extensive library that includes books about women’s issues. A few weeks ago when I visited it, I found Roberts vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America by Bari-Ellen Roberts (with Jack E. White), which details the case Roberts v. Texaco. It sounded familiar to me, so I took it [...]

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Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, We the people … When that document was completed, on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that We, the people. I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left [...]

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