On Aug. 26, 1920, nearly a century after the women’s suffrage movement began, U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed a proclamation officially certifying the recently ratified 19th Amendment and granting women the right to vote. In that moment, nearly 100 years’ worth of persistence, activism and strategy came to fruition.
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More5 Facts About Black Women in the Labor Force
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Black women are an integral part of the American labor force but have long faced a pay gap due to longstanding inequities in education and the labor market.
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Even though video games have become one of the most lucrative industries worldwide, eSports are still considered far removed from "real" sports, even though events like world championships in popular games like League of Legends, DotA 2 or StarCraft II regularly sell out huge arenas and athletes follow similarly strict training regimes to improve at
MoreWhat Americans Think About Medical Cannabis
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Over the past few years, as more and more states moved towards legalization of cannabis, the use of marijuana for medical reasons has become a lot more popular in the United States.
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