Dorothy
Part of the Series The Road to Abolition There is an old saying that “when white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” That saying speaks to a fundamental truth about the U.S.: Black people are positioned to catch hell because of historical and contemporary systemic forms of inequality. After the overturning of Roe […]
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, whose street-level activism in New York in the early 1970s, during the first years of the women’s movement, helped to inject issues of race, class and motherhood into roiling debates about feminism and equality, died on Dec. 1 in Tampa, Fla. She was 84. Her daughter Delethia Ridley-Malmsten confirmed the death, at […]
Dorothy Pitman Hughes, whose street-level activism in New York in the early 1970s, during the first years of the women’s movement, helped to inject issues of race, class and motherhood into roiling debates about feminism and equality, died on Dec. 1 in Tampa, Fla. She was 84. Her daughter Delethia Ridley-Malmsten confirmed the death, at […]
NEW YORK — Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84. Hughes died Dec. 1 in Tampa, Florida, […]
Roberts, a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Periclean Scholars Guest Lecture on Thursday evening in Whitley Auditorium. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark decision with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, overturning reproductive freedom that had been granted with the Roe v. Wade […]
Dorothy Rhau sees herself as someone who will always have a reason to laugh. “When I die I want people to see me in the coffin with a smile,” she laughed, speaking from her LaSalle borough office. “I used to tell my mother that if I stop laughing, it’s because something is wrong with me.” […]
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