Women and Girls

Just last month, the University of Michigan dismissed its president for his failure to disclose an affair with a subordinate,...

But even in defeat, colleagues recalled, she displayed remarkable composure.Called upon to argue a high-profile 2012 case that opened the...

Charles Vert Willie, a sociologist whose work reshaped our understanding of school integration and Black family life, and whose stand...

“I give myself an A-minus,” Shields said. “The only thing I didn’t do was get the damn knockout.”On paper, Kozin...

Susan OlneySan FranciscoTo the Editor:Tish Harrison Warren took lonely trips to the recycling plant in Texas in the early ’80s,...

ABAKAR SOULEYMANE People would come up to me and say, “You are so brave for being able to do that.”...

“I decided that Joe Biden needed to do something that would demonstrate a high level of respect for Black women,”...

Claressa Shields looked into her phone’s camera lens to make eye contact, then held up an index finger.As the undisputed...

The frenzy of ugly freedoms in anti-democratic politics threatens to overtake freedom’s meaning entirely, harnessing freedom solely to projects of...

When former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York was facing a cascade of sexual harassment allegations last year, his...