On the night of Oct. 18, 2016, Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old African-American woman with schizophrenia, was shot and killed by a sergeant in the New York Police Department. ..…

Overt racism was not limited to Southern chapters, however, as demonstrated in a letter to a local congressman from NWP leader Carrie Chapman Catt: “The women of New York are now the political equals of the men of New York, but the white women of the south are the political inferiors of..…

The year 2013 marked the anniversary of one of the important foundational texts of second-wave Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, exposing it as problem, not individual one. ..…

Also a fascinating phenomenon that I discuss in The American Crucible and An Unfinished Revolution is the role of African Americans in deepening the language of rights. Black conferences in Syracuse, upstate New York, in 1864, and later in South Carolina and Louisiana, adopted a..…

About 40 years ago, group of African-American converts to Islam started their own community in upstate New York to escape corrosive influences from New York City. ..…