
Detroit Free Press – Tuesday 14 May, 2013 (originally published 10 May) Viola Liuzzo was a homemaker and mother of five children when she suddenly told her husband in 1965 that she was heading south to register black Southerners to vote during the civil rights movement. Liuzzo, who paid for her idealism with her life [...]

Erin Grace – World-Herald Columnist via Omaha.com (originally published 3 April, 2013) The lines in Laura Galligo Brewer’s face run deep, reflecting a century of living — much of it hard. All the loss, starting with her mother, who died when Laura was just a child. Then, when Laura was a young mother, her husband [...]

Dr. Peggy Drexler – Huffington Post – Tuesday, 16 April 2013 (originally published 10 Apr) I’ve never liked the term “working mother.” To me, it implies that I’m some kind of subcategory, and not a full member of the club. The label also combines a bit of praise for a superhuman effort with a whiff [...]

Howard LaFranchi – The Christian Science Monitor – Thursday 4 April, 2013 Now we know what Hillary Rodham Clinton is really going to be doing while she decides over the next year or so whether to run for president in 2016: She’ll be writing a book, and she’ll lend her name and support to women’s [...]

Yolanda Gonzalez Gomez – New America Media – Friday, 22 March 2013 (originally published 18 Mar) Tambien En Español BROWNSVILLE, Texas–Guadalupe Tobias did not live a drastic change when she emigrated to South Texas more than four decades ago and decided to take root in one of the poorest regions of the United States. There [...]