Did you know that one of the leading figures in the Compromise of 1877, which after a deadlock in the Electoral College delivered the presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in exchange for a ...
The Women’s March organization — decried from the start for being non-inclusive by a variety of critics, including some trans women, women of color, sex workers, and even anti-abortion activists — can ...
A prominent activist and central organizer of the Women's March is refusing to condemn Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. Tamika Mallory, one of the four main organizers ...
Louis Farrakhan is not a radical. He's a conservative," says Kevin Gray, a liberal black activist in South Carolina. To most white Americans, that notion seems bizarre: if Farrakhan--the militant ...
More than a week after Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered a blistering speech in Chicago in which he said “powerful Jews are my enemy” and “white folks are going down,” calls are growing ...
After being under fire for one of its leaders attending a Louis Farrakhan speech, the Women’s March issued a statement on Mar. 6 addressing the issue. The statement claimed that the Women’s March was ...
A Jewish staffer of the Women’s March is leaving the movement after expressing dissatisfaction with its response to a co-president’s continued support for the anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan.
Actress-turned-activist Alyssa Milano won’t speak at the next Women’s March unless its organizers condemn controversial, anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Women’s March organizers ...
The annual march was set to take place in January and had previously drawn thousands to Chicago’s Grant Park this past two years at the height of the #MeToo movement. “Any time that there is any ...
For the past two weeks, progressive activists and Jewish advocacy groups have been relitigating the character of Louis Farrakhan. The National of Islam minister gave his annual Saviours’ Day speech on ...
The Women’s March — a civil-rights group at the center of protests against the Trump presidency — is losing top staffers and supporters over its leadership’s refusal to denounce a racist, homophobic ...
Tamika Mallory, the march's co-president, sparked an outcry with an Instagram photo of herself and the Nation of Islam leader following his speech. NEW YORK (JTA) — Organizers of the Women’s March ...