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The late United States Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink will be posthumously honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor today. Subscribe to read this story ...

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Clad in suffragette white, Kamala Harris used her first speech as the United States’ first female vice president-elect to commemorate women’s political achievements. Her victory comes one century ...

UC Santa Cruz undergraduate Pearl Ibeanusi—a Stevenson College senior who’s double majoring in community studies and education, justice, and democracy—recently won a nationally competitive scholarship ...

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Patsy Takemoto Mink testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee against Supreme Court nominee Harold Carswell around 1971-1972. Credit - Courtesy Gwendolyn Mink/Patsy Takemoto Mink papers, ...