One of the themes of our exhibition, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg—organized by the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and on view through January 23—is RBG’s decades-long work to expand and protect reproductive rights. Last month, the Supreme Court heard the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,…
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RBG’s Long History of Expanding and Protecting Reproductive Rights
January 11, 2022
One of the themes of our exhibition, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg—organized by the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and on view through January 23—is RBG’s decades-long work to expand and protect reproductive rights. Last month, the Supreme Court heard the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,…
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Pauli Murray: Honoring the Groundbreaking Legal Activist
October 30, 2021
In her 1978 autobiographical family history, Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family, Pauli Murray writes about the role of the women from the pre-Civil War and Reconstruction eras who “were not conscious feminists, but in coping with the intolerable tensions of their time, assumed responsibilities and performed actions which quietly defied convention and…
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VOTE: Celebrating Lady Pink on Election Day
October 29, 2021
This Election Day, let iconic New York artist Lady Pink remind you to get out there and VOTE! Many New York City Hall offices—including the office of the mayor, the city comptroller, public advocate, and city council—plus many county-level and local positions, and statewide ballot proposals, are at stake even if it is an “off-year”…
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Honoring Caroline Parker, Haudenosaunee Artist
October 8, 2021
Despite the pleasures of a three-day weekend, the second Monday in October has a highly contentious history. Although it was not celebrated at the federal level until 1934, the commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage became widespread at a time of intense anti-immigrant—particularly anti-Asian—sentiment. As historian Malinda Maynor Lowery put it, in the late 1800s,…
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Milk: Life, Death, and Women’s Work
September 3, 2021
How could such a simple substance like milk be a matter of life or death for infants? A special installation on view on the fourth floor of the New-York Historical Society through November, 28, 2021 explores how, at the turn of the 20th century, babies who were not breastfed faced mortal danger with every sip…
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How Journalists Ella Baker and Marvel Jackson Cooke Exposed Domestic Work’s “Slave Market”
September 1, 2021
While our exhibition Cover Story: Katharine Graham, CEO, is on view in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery, the Center for Women’s History is exploring the lives and professional experiences of women in media. For this installment, we’re diving into one of the most famous events in investigative journalism: when activist Ella Baker and…
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