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ASU Residence Hall Renamed after Key Figure in Montgomery Bus Boycott

ASU Civil Rights Icon Honored | Alabama State University

This Middle Georgia Woman Led The Montgomery Bus Boycott That Helped Propel MLK's Career

Rutgers study: Women underrepresented in politics on the local level

View Comments Correction & clarification: A prior version of this article misstated the number of female municipal officeholders, details about verification of the data, some location information and a couple of quotes. Women are underrepresented in political office on the municipal level, according to a new report released Thursday by Rutgers University,findings that contradict previously held beliefs that women are more likely to hold office locally than on the state or federal levels. An analysis of census-level data by Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics — the first university-based center to focus on women's participation in American politics on a national scale — found the percentage of women in municipal office virtually matches that of women serving in state government and in the House of Representatives.

Rutgers study: Women underrepresented in politics on the local level

USA TODAY Women are underrepresented in political office on the municipal level, according to a new report released Thursday by Rutgers University,findings that contradict previously held beliefs that women are more likely to hold office locally than on the state or federal levels. An analysis of census-level data by Rutgers' Center for American Women in Politics — the first university-based center to focus on women's participation in American politics on a national scale — found the percentage of women in municipal office virtually matches that of women serving in state government and in the House of Representatives. Currently, 30.5% of women occupy municipal seats, 30.9% are in state legislatures, and though Pew Research Center reported the number of women serving in the 117th Congress increased 50% from 10 years ago, 26.5% hold seats in the House. 

Women underrepresented in municipal, state and national politics, new Rutgers study finds

Commentary - Mrs. Thelma Glass: Teacher-Activist

Listen to Sunita George's commentary Thelma McWilliams was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, where she spent her early years. She moved to Montgomery to attend Alabama State Teachers College and, after graduating in 1941, she went on to get an MA degree from Columbia University in 1947.  She returned to teach Geography at her alma mater soon after, and became    secretary to the Women’s Political Council, an organization founded by a group of teachers at Alabama State University in 1947 to fight racial injustices and oppression in Montgomery. Though the best-known accounts of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, focus on the organizing actions of Martin Luther King Jr., and the resistance of Rosa Parks, the boycott had its genesis in work begun earlier, work in which the Women’s Political Council played key strategic and tactical roles.  In Mrs. Glass’ own words to an interviewer years later, “The men talked about it, you know, but we were ready to take action.”

The Black history you didn't learn in school is being taught on TikTok

The Black history you didn't learn in school is being taught on TikTok Arit John © Provided by The LA Times Across the TikTok app, Black creators are posting videos that confront America's racist past. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) Put away your textbooks and pull out your cellphones: some of the best Black history lessons are happening on TikTok. Across the app, Black creators are posting videos that confront America’s racist past in graphic detail, use history to add context to the way race is viewed today and view history through a lens that addresses the way homophobia, colorism, age and respectability politics influence who history remembers best. They go beyond the surface level explorations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks that run rampant during Black History Month to examine lesser-known figures, and they don't limit themselves to February.

How four Black creators teach their history on TikTok

Put away your textbooks and pull out your cellphones: some of the best Black history lessons are happening on TikTok. Across the app, Black creators are posting videos that confront America’s racist past in graphic detail, use history to add context to the way race is viewed today and view history through a lens that addresses the way homophobia, colorism, age and respectability politics influence who history remembers best. They go beyond the surface level explorations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks that run rampant during Black History Month to examine lesser-known figures, and they don’t limit themselves to February.

Black Lives Matter: Where are the Black clergy?

When Julian DeShazier, a 37-year-old Black pastor, marches in Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, he removes his clerical collar – a symbol of authority – and follows the instructions of organisers, many of whom are younger than him, and many of whom are women. DeShazier and members of his Hyde Park University Church in Chicago, Illinois, decided that the youth, whom he describes as “faithful, but secular”, are “best positioned to lead this movement right now”. The role of the Church is “to be supportive of them in offering ourselves in the ways they show us they need us and to fill in the gaps as well.”