Why Is This Important?Because if theres anyone who can effectively and intelligently talk dudes into considering feminism, its Emma Watson. And if that doesnt work, she can always bust out her wizardry skills to help her get the point across.Long Sto...
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In the 1930s, the enigmatic figure ran an illegal lottery while championing New York City’s Black communityA gangster, civil rights advocate, fashionista and businesswoman, St. Clair successfully took on one of the biggest crime bosses of the e...
Though they were just a small percentage of the state’s population, African Americans petitioned the state of Ohio to repeal racist lawsAn illustration from an abolitionist paper shows the divide in border states like Ohio, where a small African Ame...
Photograph: Philip MontgomeryJust before midnight somewhere in the western United States, a white pickup truck’s high beams light up a stretch of dark highway.The driver slows as his three passengers peer through the cab’s front and rear windshield...
Pultizer-Prize winning historian Eric Foner uncovers the hidden story behind this passage to freedomCyrus Gates House, in Broome County, New York, was once an important stop along the Underground Railroad. (Wikimedia Commons )ByAndrea Stonesmithsonia...
Milwaukee artistNicolas Lampert said that a car-ride conversation with famed historian and author Howard Zinn inspired him to write a new book of his own, reflecting on the overlooked stories of radical artists and what they created amid the social a...
Sometimes it seems like it isn't possible to be both a person of faith and a strong supporter of science.
But, for Bassam Shakhashiri, that isn't the case. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and past p...
Last month thousands of climate activists took to the streets of Paris during the historic 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP-21. A guest who was one of those activist discusses how artists helped frame the mes...
On todays Wisconsin Life we talk to an author about the impact Aldo Leopold has had on our way of life.Host:Rob FerrettVeronica RueckertGuest(s):Marybeth LorbieckiProducer(s):Karl Christenson...
Group founder Bobby Seale reflects on the Panthers’ iconic Ten-Point ProgramFounder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale stands next to a wall graphic of the Party's Ten-Point Program inside the Oakland Museum of California's exhibition, "...
Group founder Bobby Seale reflects on the Panthers’ iconic Ten-Point ProgramFounder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale stands next to a wall graphic of the Party's Ten-Point Program inside the Oakland Museum of California's exhibition, "...
The 1968 Hunger Wall is a stark reminder of the days when the country’s impoverished built a shantytown on the National MallByAllison Keyessmithsonianmag.comSeptember 21, 2016The words and images on what is known as “The Hunger Wall”...
The 1968 Hunger Wall is a stark reminder of the days when the country’s impoverished built a shantytown on the National MallByAllison Keyessmithsonianmag.comSeptember 21, 2016The words and images on what is known as “The Hunger Wall”...
A whirlwind of action, both organized and organic, supported by legal defense teams brought historic changeAfter the 2016 election, several hundred students at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, walked out of the classrooms in p...
When you talk about abortion in America, someone’s bound to invoke the . She lines the streets outside Planned Parenthoods and floods outspoken women’s Twitter accounts with hate, but mostly she lives inside people’s heads, clanging her bell so lo...
By the 1850s, Ernestine Rose was a well-known public figure, far more famous than her allies Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. AnthonyErnestine Rose championed abolition and women's rights in her adopted land.(Wikipedia)ByBonnie Anderson, Zócalo P...
In 2011, the mining company Gogebic Taconite, GTAC, announced plans to develop a low-grade iron ore deposit mine on the Wisconsin-Michigan border, just downstream from the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe’s reservation and rice beds...
“The Nation We Build Together” questions American ideals through exhibits on democracy, religion, diversity and more Horatio Greenough’s 12-ton marble statue of George Washington heralds the newly reopened west wing gallery.(NMAH)ByRoger Catlinsmi...
Fifty years ago, the anarchist protester sent traders sprawling for dollar bills—and became a media sensationPolitical activists Abbie Hoffman, left, and Jerry Rubin set five-dollar bills on fire at the Financial Center in New York on August 24, 196...
Miss America pageant is under new leadership after a sexist email scandal. But the pageant has a long history of controversy—including the 1968 protestsWomen gleefully threw objects symbolizing oppression into the Freedom Trash Can, but they didn’t...
