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By fatimahfair • 5 years ago

I Asked the Department of Education to Fight for Black Girls. They Ignored Me.

Walking down the hallway at school, an administrator stopped me in my tracks. I felt her eyes glare from the top of my head, past my torso and down my legs. She told me that my shorts were too short and that she didn’t want to see me wearing them ever again. I felt embarrassed and shaken, and for the rest of the day, I wondered if her impression of me had changed simply because of the shorts I was wearing.

My experience isn’t unique. Thousands of girls have similar stories of being pulled out of class or stopped by an administrator because of what we look like. The plain truth is that Black girls are disciplined because of dress ...

Walking down the hallway at school, an administrator stopped me in my tracks. I felt her eyes glare from the top of my head, past my torso and down my legs. She told me that my shorts ...

By Jess Fournier • 5 years ago

Workers Tell McDonald’s #TimesUp

Yesterday, McDonald’s workers from 10 cities across the U.S. went on strike to demand the company address pervasive sexual harassment in the workplace.

Organized by the Fight for $15, a national campaign working to achieve a $15 minimum wage for all workers and the right to a union, the strike is a followup to the 10 sexual harassment complaints workers have filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since May, with the help of the TimesUp Legal Defense Fund. The complaints describe horrifying sexual harassment and assault by ...

Yesterday, McDonald’s workers from 10 cities across the U.S. went on strike to demand the company address pervasive sexual harassment in the workplace.

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By Sejal Singh • @Sej_Singh • 5 years ago

It’s Long Past Time to Make Childcare Central To the Progressive Agenda

Many millennials plan to have fewer children than they want. Nearly two out of three say it’s because childcare is so prohibitively expensive that they simply can’t afford the families they’d like to have, according to a new poll.

It’s a disturbing, but unsurprising, figure. Childcare costs have skyrocketed by 168 percent in the last 25 years. Full-time daycare costs an average $9,589 a year, according to the Care Index. In urban areas, it can be even worse. Parents in Washington, D.C., pay an astronomical average of $35,782 ...

Many millennials plan to have fewer children than they want. Nearly two out of three say it’s because childcare is so prohibitively expensive that they simply can’t afford the families ...

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