Culture
Looking Backward to Move Forward: Feminism Is the Path Toward Liberation
A Review of Joanna Scutts’ “Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism.”
Emily French
June 28, 2022
Emily French
Culture
Let’s Bend the Long Arc Toward Justice: A Review of Ibram X. Kendi’s New Book ‘How to Raise an Anti-Racist’
Kendi has some great suggestions for how parents can be intentional in nurturing children to be culturally competent and free from myths of white supremacy.
Emily French
June 18, 2022
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Voices of Gay Liberation: The Impact of the Stonewall Riots
With attacks on LGBTQ communities launched from school boards to state legislatures, now is a good time to read “Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America.”
Emily French
June 15, 2022
Culture
Laboratories of Autocracy: From Harrisburg to Other Statehouses Across the Country
A new book is a clarion call to organize for local elections and issues as passionately as you do for national ones.
Emily French
June 6, 2022
Culture
In Flights for Women’s Rights
Nell McShane Wulfhart recounts what happened with labor and women’s rights in the airline industry, American Airlines, and the Transportation Workers Union in the 1960s.
Emily French
May 24, 2022
The Surprise IRS Move to Support Pastors’ Political Endorsements Leaves Faith Leaders and Legal Experts Divided
July 10, 2025
Raymond Chang, president of the Asian American Christian Collaborative, warned that a repeal of the Johnson Amendment could help tether some congregations to certain parties or candidates.
A Bayard Rustin Archive Aims to Preserve His Legacy as a Queer Civil Rights Activist
July 9, 2025
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates the West Chester-born civil rights activist, a mentor to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and key architect of the March on Washington.
Democratic Congressional Candidate Bob Harvie Visits Bucks County Manufacturing Business Suffering Under Trump’s Tariff Wars
July 7, 2025
The uncertainty around the Trump administration’s tariff strategy “is creating havoc” for Warminster-based Gamry Instruments.
The GOP’s Budget Bill and Its Federal Funding Cuts Will Harm Bucks County Students
July 3, 2025
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
State Senator Steve Santarsiero: It’s Possible to Be an Advocate for the Homeless and Believe Encampments Are Not a Good Idea
July 2, 2025
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
