"Woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own."
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Georgia Ann Mullen on July 17, 2010 |
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Nineteenth century San Francisco had Ah Toy. Twentieth century El Monte, Calif., had Aunt Suni.
Ah Toy, a daughter of joy on the Barbary Coast, was queen of the underworld, specializing in smuggling and prostitution. Even Niccolo Machiavelli thought she was tops with political intrigue. It is Aunt...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on March 29, 2010 |
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When Cincinnati high school senior Olivia Morris organizes a dinner party, not all guests are created equal.
Some enjoy a catered meal, entertainment by a string quartet and Indian dancing. Others eat a piece of pita bread and a small bowl of rice. The least fortunate chase around the school...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on January 31, 2010 |
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Modern day slavery doesn’t occur only on the other side of the world or in poor countries. It’s common right in the United States.
Social worker Tiffany Williams has aided a 24-year-old nanny forced to sleep on the basement floor in freezing temperatures and beg for food scraps from the...
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Georgia Ann Mullen on December 11, 2009 |
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E. Benjamin Skinner is a modern day abolitionist crusading against modern day slavery.
An independent journalist, Skinner infiltrated trafficking networks, slave quarries, illegal brothels and urban child markets to find subjects for his book A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day...
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