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Happy 100th birthday, Rosa Parks!

By Katie | Published: February 4, 2013

TweetToday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, leading to a a 13-month boycott of the Montgomery bus system that would help spark the civil rights movement. Today, the U.S. Postal [...]

What We Missed

By Vanessa | Published: December 1, 2010

Tweet 55 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Earlier that year, 15-year old Claudette Colvin did the same thing. A new fetal “personhood” amendment is in the works in Florida. Nancy Goldstein on the best news women have had yet regarding the AIDS pandemic. [...]