10 Things You Need to Know About Native American Women

It’s no exaggeration to say that American Indian women are missing from most media coverage, history books and classroom discussions. But at least journalism students, instructors and state educators ...Read More

Women–And Men–Aren’t “Born” Teachers

When I was younger, I asked my mom why she decided to become a teacher. Aside from the obvious factors–she liked working with kids, she wanted to help students learn, she had a passion for teaching–she ...Read More

The Myth of the “Girl Brain”

Has your local public school opened up a new all-girls classroom? Are you tempted to enroll your daughter in it?  After all, the principal may have offered up impressive evidence that girls learn ...Read More

Behind the Koala Mask

The California Faculty Association, one of the biggest and most powerful faculty unions in the nation, recently passed a resolution [PDF] to condemn the aggressive distribution and hate speech in ...Read More

To Get Hate Speech Off Campus, Cal State Students Wield Title IX

In an ongoing student battle against a hate-filled tabloid, The Koala, that has been causing uproar on three Cal State campuses since January, Cal State San Marcos students have now filed a Title ...Read More

Penn State Community Rallies in Support of Victims

Why does the Penn State community cheer for Joe Paterno? We’ve seen nearly a week’s worth of rallying in support of the legendary football coach after a grand jury indictment made plain that ...Read More

How Students at Historically Black Colleges Drove the Mississippi “Personhood” Defeat

When I was asked to come to Mississippi about three weeks ago to organize students against Initiative 26, or the so-called “personhood” amendment, I honestly did not know if we even had a chance ...Read More

Hold the Sprinkles: National Pro-Life Cupcake Day Is Upon Us

Here at the Ms. Blog, we don’t usually turn down cupcakes. But over the next few days, we’ll be forgoing any of the tasty deserts handed out by the Cupcakes for Life movement. In case ...Read More

Newsflash: Single Mom Granted Clemency in Ohio

Kelley Williams-Bolar, the Ohio single mother of two who was convicted of a felony for using her father’s address instead of her own in order to get her children into what she felt would be ...Read More

Scapegoating Black Women in a Recession

You know the media spin cycle and the propagandists are winning when you advise a young, promising black woman undergraduate student about her prospects for doctoral studies, and she immediately takes ...Read More

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