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Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes Announces Home-Based Jail Alternative For Female Felons
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes announced yesterday that he will launch a program allowing mothers convicted of nonviolent crime to serve...
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Wikipedia Creates Sexist Subcategory for American Female Novelists
Wikipedia are criticism today for creating a subcategory for American Women Novelists, distinguishing them as a lesser class of American Novelists....
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FDNY Commissioner’s Son Joseph Cassano Tweets Racist Comments
Joseph Cassano, the 23-year-old son of New York City Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano, may have some difficulty moving up in the department...
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Woman Gets Mauled to Death by Lion While Having Sex
Sharai Mawera was enjoying a spontaneous sexual encounter with her boyfriend when she was mauled to death by a lion on Tuesday. The couple was at a...
How Far Have We Come Since Roe v. Wade?
By: Mariel Murphy I love anniversaries, and not just because there’s usually some sort of cake involved, but because they mark significant and...
A Tale of 2 Woman's Nations
I feel obligated to make a comment during this week of the Woman's Conference. There were women supporting their families and this nation before...
Animal Experimentation Funny? This Researcher Says Yes
Animal researchers usually try to display some respect for the animals they experiment on. They may do things they don't want you to know about to...
Why are More Black Women Dying in Childbirth?
Yolanda Sangweni for Essence: While America marvels at supermoms like Kate Gosselin and Octomom, new findings from New York City and Amnesty...
Women Who Had Abortions Have Sinned, but Still Need Support
Few actions are rejected in Christian circles as the admittance of having had an abortion. While women can weep in a prayer line regarding the loss...
New Bill to End Violence Against Women
By Daphne Jayasinghe I was honored to attend the event to mark the re-introduction of the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) on...
Rush Limbaugh: "I Love Women's Movement, Especially Walking Behind It"
With its popularity waning, the Miss America pagent went out and got controversial radio host Rush Limbaugh to be one of the judges for last weekend'...
Ladies & Marijuana -- The New "NORML Women's Alliance"
By Paul Armentano The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the nation’s oldest and most well respected grassroots...
Study Shows The Pill & Abortion Raise Breast Cancer Risk
Less than two months since the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines recommending against routine mammograms for women in their...
FDA Addresses Lack of Data on Medications & Pregnant Women
A new research program called the Medication Exposure in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program (MEPREP) will fund research to study the effects of...
86-Year-Old Indian Governor Resigns After Sex Tape Emerges
He may be 86-years-old, but a governor in India is apparently still frisky --?and it's gotten him into a heap of trouble. Narain Dutt Tiwari resigned...
A Handy Database of Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistresses
For the last two weeks, women have been coming out of the woodwork to claim relationships with Tiger Woods, a married golfer who was just named the...
Tiger Woods' Caddie Speaks Out -- "He's Human"
The caddie for Tiger Woods denied knowing anything about the 'indiscretions' that led the world's No. 1 player to take an indefinite leave from golf...
Prostitutes' Rights -- the Latest Feminist Cause
I don't know, I just don't know. The world is a backward place. Lori at Feministing is celebrating International Human Rights Day today by...
2 Female NYC Teachers Caught in Naked Classroom Romp
A janitor at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York told school officials he caught two female teachers naked in an empty classroom. And now...
Rush Limbaugh Says Tiger Woods' "Choice of Females" Hurts Blacks
Rush Limbaugh is weighing in on the Tiger Woods scandal and, as usual, his comments are being met with cries of racism. On his radio show Tuesday,...