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“At the dawn of the suffrage movement, no known African-American women attended the famous Seneca Falls Convention, despite the abolitionist sentiments that gave birth to the campaign for women’s rights. “White women, who were still powerless in many ways, needed to influence men to attain the vote. Susan B. Anthony had signed a declaration for […]

This year, as with so many other things, we are unable to gather in person at the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. While this is disappointing, we are still going to march forth, virtually! Tomorrow, FFL President Serrin M. Foster will be presenting her acclaimed speech, “The Feminist Case Against Abortion,” on the eve of

While today we mourn more than 62 million unborn little ones whose lives were terminated by various forms of abortion, we also remember women and teens who died from abortions. I remember Holly Paterson, who died on my birthday, Constitution Day. While I celebrated with the woman who gave me life, Holly was painfully dying

On this day in 1884, abolitionist, suffragist, and dear friend of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), married his second wife, Helen Pitts, less than two years after the death of his first wife, Anna Murray Douglass. At a time when interracial marriage was outlawed throughout most of the United States,