Last Friday was an exciting day, as I was fortunate enough to attend the National Committee on Pay Equity’s presentation of the Winn Newman Award. Named for a civil rights and labor lawyer who fought gender- and race-based salary discrimination throughout his life, the award is presented annually to the group or individual who has [...]
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Women in History
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged African American, condoleeze rice, diplomacy, secretary of state, state department on March 21, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Condoleezza Rice served as the country’s chief diplomat as U.S. secretary of state — the first African American woman to hold the position.
Natural Hair: My Struggles, Tangles, and Freedoms
Posted in The AAUW Community, Students & Educational Issues, tagged African American, beauty, beauty ideal, National Student Advisory Council, NCCWSL on December 8, 2010, | 7 Comments »
My relationship with my hair has been a multifaceted one. Thus, I’ve chosen to explore the origins and reasons behind my decisions to “go natural” and to share what I’ve learned along the way. My position on the National Student Advisory Council has required me to look at myself and the labels society has given [...]
Drive Time Radio and Mammy
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African American, black history, culture, education, stereotypes, women faculty, women's history on August 10, 2009, | 7 Comments »
Drive time radio can be annoying, informative, shocking, and sometimes just plain stupid. My usual 10-minute commute to the Metro has been extended this summer to 30 minutes as I have the honor of morning camp drop-off for my son and daughter. I admit to being a serial station changer. Having controls on the steering [...]
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged African American, HIV/AIDS, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, sex education, women on March 10, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Without fail, this anniversary sneaks up on me like a winter storm in March. Twenty years ago my brother died of AIDS-related cancer. He is one of more than 25 million people worldwide that AIDS has killed since it was officially recognized in 1981. Much has changed in the treatment of HIV/AIDS since then. Patients [...]
Harriet Tubman, Spy
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Civil Rights, tagged African American, Black History Month, women's history on February 23, 2009, | 3 Comments »
By sheer happenstance I caught the tail end of the review of a new book, Black Dispatches, by Ken Dagler, which tells stories of African American slaves who actually served as spies. As someone who had decided to be a spy at the age of five (albeit later denied for being “too short”), I found [...]
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