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Pakistan Appoints First Female Supreme Court Justice Pakistan’s Supreme Court has seventeen members. And as of January 24, 2022, for the first time in history, one of them is a woman. Justice Ayesha Malik was sworn in last Monday in Islamabad. Justice Malik is 55 years old, a mother of three, and has been educated […]
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Ida B. Wells Monument Unveiled in Chicago Ida B. Wells was an enslaved person who later became a newspaper editor and civil rights activist in Memphis, Tennessee. As a journalist, she travelled the South in a crusade against lynching. Wells published the stories she heard in her newspaper, The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. She […]
“A Portrait of Persistence”
Did you know that March was National Women’s History Month? In 1987, Congress designated every March as an annual recognition of women’s history and achievements. Now, a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery seeks to showcase and honor women’s contributions throughout history, especially those of women who have not traditionally been recognized, such […]