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Category: Widgets: Women

Changing Pakistani women’s lives, one sip of tea, one bike ride at a time

March 28, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Immigration, International, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Sadia Khatri is determined to change the lives of women and girls in Pakistan—one tea-sipping, snacking, strolling, bicycle-riding excursion at a time.  The story

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Women are leaders on the path toward a nuclear-weapons-free world

September 12, 2018 Bojan Francuz Activism, International, Nuclear weapons, Widgets: Women, Women One comment

Every year, just as the summer is nearing its end, the world remembers. We remember the unconscionable use of the world’s deadliest weapons—nuclear weapons—seventy-three

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Muslim women and the power of representation

January 22, 2017 Hafsa Civil liberties, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

I distinctly remember as a child once telling my mother I was divided into “half Muslim and half American,” as if there was no

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Infographic: A history of women running for President

June 13, 2016 Bobbi Clemons 2016 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Whether you’re pro or anti Hillary Clinton, you have to admit that a woman running for President of the United States is a good

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Dr. King’s dream, and the hijabi women who dream it, too

January 18, 2016 Renee Shur Activism, Civil Rights, Gender issues, Media, Religion in Politics, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial before a throng of civil-rights activists in August of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his

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The first MO woman elected to Congress & the street named for her

May 17, 2010 Arthur Lieber Congress, Government, History, Missouri region, Widgets: Women Leave a comment

If you live in or near St. Louis, you may have walked or driven on a street named in her honor, but you might

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