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Congratulations to our new U.S. Attorney General ‪#‎LorettaLynch‬ for her confirmation today! More on Loretta Lynch: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/meetattorney.html

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this isn’t simply a hypothetical, she and others point out. Pregnant women have been prosecuted or subject to forced interventions for substance abuse, for refusing to have a Caesarean section, for attempting suicide, even for falling down the stairs. In a future that seems straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale, the interests of “fetal protection,” Tuerkheimer noted, might lead to pregnancy itself becoming a matter of state regulation

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/abortion-rights-at-risk-the-gop-opens-a-new-front-in-the-war-on-women-20150422#ixzz3YPRCGNZy Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

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‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬ More on Dorothy Height: http://bit.ly/1F0fKJp

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This Saturday, there will be another large “Moral March on Raleigh” to kick off a new year of activism and protests—on the birthday of Frederick Douglas, three weeks before the fiftieth anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma.

"This is our Selma," says the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. "Selma can’t merely be a movie, it must be a movement we engage in now. Everything they won in Selma is now being attacked and North Carolina is the clearest example of that."

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Adorable girls’ clothing line is destroying gender stereotypes one dress at a time 

"Girls shouldn’t have to decide between dresses and dinosaurs or ruffles and robots."

That the thinking behind Princess Awesome, an empowering (and adorable) children’s clothing line created by moms Rebecca Melsky and Eva St. Clair. While typical princess outfits consist of delicate fabrics in shades of pink, Princess Awesome features diverse dresses adorned with radical prints — like dinosaurs, mathematical symbols, ninjas, pirates and even atomic diagrams.

And they’re already off to a huge start.

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Powerful video shows the harrowing talk parents often have with black kids 

Shortly after a Staten Island grand jury voted not to indict the officer who killed Eric Garner in a chokehold, Mayor Bill de Blasio told ABC News, “What parents have done for decades who have children of color, especially young men of color, is train them to be very careful when they have … an encounter with a police officer.”

Black parents and young people alike are doing just that in a new video that offers 10 rules of survival. The 2-minute PSA-style video from the SALT Project walks through some basic, but potentially life-saving tips for handling any police stop.

The tender, yet pointed 7 words that sum up all of the advice

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Want to make history? Sign and share the People’s Brief for ‪#‎MarriageEquality‬ to ‪#‎SCOTUS‬. ‪#‎LoveCantWait‬. The brief must be filed with the court by March 6.

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‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth‬ Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer: http://thebea.st/1lwpsv0

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five or more justices, opponents of gay marriage bans being challenged at the high court this spring are inviting average citizens to sign a “friend of the court” brief that will be filed in early March. The first name on the brief will be that of Edie Windsor, who won her lawsuit in 2013 when the high court struck down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act that had denied federal benefits to legally married gays and lesbians. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, wrote the brief in conjunction with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights organization.

Americans interested in signing the so-called “amicus” brief can go to HRC.org and add their names. The brief must be filed with the court by March 6.

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Support women artists! Announcing Voices: An Artist's Perspective

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Women are not incubators. A pregnant women does not have less rights than a corpse! State Organ Donation Legislation: http://www.organdonor.gov/legislation_micro/ Photo via Kimberley A. Johnson Post via UniteWomen.org

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Women are not incubators. A pregnant women does not have less rights than a corpse! State Organ Donation Legislation: http://www.organdonor.gov/legislation_micro/ Photo via Kimberley A. Johnson Post via UniteWomen.org

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Congressman Tim Ryan changed his stance on ‪#‎abortion‬ after actually listening to real stories from real people instead of legislating as if they were just a statistic. Thank you Congressman Ryan for sharing your journey in this op-ed: http://bit.ly/1Eq17i5

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Happy Birthday to Angela Davis - such an inspiration to us all!

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If the 20-week ban became law, women would no longer be able to obtain an #abortion AFTER they obtained the results of their tests confirming the lack of viability of the fetus. So exactly who are the anti-choicers trying to protect? #RoevWade

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Review The Daily Show with Jon Stewart spinoff The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central