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By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator The book, Hidden Figures, made its impact on the world in 2016. Authored by Margot Lee Shetterly, it relates the phenomenal, real-life account of four Black women — Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine ...

By Roberta K. Timothy Contributing Writer “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider) Last year at the Golden Globes, many Hollywood actors got on stage in ...

By Isabelle Arradon Guest Writer BRUSSELS, March 8, 2019 (IPS) — Women human rights defenders, around the globe, are facing heightened threats of violence and repression. Sometimes they are targeted for being activists, and sometimes just for being women. World ...

By Ibrahim Thiaw Guest Writer UNITED NATIONS, New York March 8, 2019 (IPS) — Science and technology offer exciting pathways for rural women to tackle the challenges they face daily. Innovative solutions for rural women can, for example, reduce their ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Here we are in March, with longer days and the official start of spring, and the promise of renewed life as plant life push through the last of the snow. March 8, annually ...

By Charles Mwewa Guest Writer “I believe in white supremacy until the Blacks are educated to a point of responsibility,” John Wayne said (in a 1971 Playboy Magazine interview). Wayne was born Marion Mitchell Morrison and he was an American ...

By Jonathan Weier Guest Writer With his win in the federal byelection in Burnaby South, NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh, has an opportunity to put to rest some of his doubters both outside the NDP and, more importantly, within. Now that ...

By Justine Masika Bihamba Guest Writer GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 22, 2019 (IPS) — When Felix Tshisekedi, the 55-year-old son of the former opposition leader, won the recent presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, it should ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator The recent report of a woman, who has been in a vegetative state, giving birth at a long-term healthcare care facility in Arizona, is not only disturbing, repulsive and outrageously gut-wrenching, but at ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator In a recent public lecture in London, England, Professor Jo Delahunty, QC, one of Britain’s top leading barristers, propounded that there was extensive complacency regarding the pervasiveness of inappropriate behavior in chambers and ...