The U.S. women’s soccer team, winner of four Olympic gold medals, three World Cup championships, and ranked No. 1 in this year’s World Cup match that began June 7 in France, is suing U.S. Soccer for gender discrimination. The class action suit declares that, compared to the men’s team—which has never won a World Cup […]
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Celebrating a 70-year struggle to vote
It took seven decades of steady, often brutal, campaigning to get United States women the right to vote. The activism began in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and friends shocked the local patriarchy by getting together in a church to tell their menfolk what they expected out of life. At that point, men should have […]
NYC plans another woman’s statue
New York City, in its continuing quest to increase diversity–think female–among its public statuary, will honor two LGBT rights activists who participated in the 1969 Stonewall rebellion. Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson will be honored with a monument in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall uprising marks its 50th anniversary this year. The monument will be […]
Women take over Guard command
For the first time in the country’s history, a state National Guard has a command staff made up exclusively of women. Three are African American and all are mothers. “I didn’t even realize that it was going to line up this way,” said Maj. Gen. Linda L. Singh. “It’s not like I engineered it for […]
Historical fiction panel Feb. 23 at Book ‘Em NC
Georgia Ann Mullen will participate in a panel discussion on historical fiction at the 2013 Book ‘Em North Carolina Writers Conference & Book Fair in Lumberton. The panel will take place Saturday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. in the Red Room at Robeson Community College. Book ‘Em North Carolina will feature more than 75 authors, […]
Reading/signing Sunday at World Canals Conference
Former Western New York resident Georgia Ann Mullen will read from books in her Canal Tales Series Sunday, Sept. 19 at the World Canals Conference in Rochester, NY. Georgia’s readings from A Shocking & Unnatural Incident and Wixumlee Is My Salvation will highlight how canals fit into her historical novels. Among the sites mentioned in […]
