The contributions that women have made to the history of this nation are rarely acknowledged.  Most of the children in the country grow up not knowing that women were at the forefront of the anti-slavery, civil right, social reform, suffrage, and gay rights movements.  They stood up for others, but few have stood up for them.  

The first women's movement began around 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, when Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and others formed organizations to fight for votes for women.  The movement came to fruition in 1919 when the 19th Amendment became part of the Constitution.

The second women's movement began in the late 1960's and 70's with women's liberation.  Its focus was to attain equal rights and equal pay for women, and should have come to fruition in the early 1980's with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, but unfortunately, it did not occur.

One's jaw drops when reading this paragraph in the New Yorker's profile of Michelle Obama:

From these bleak generalities, Obama moves into specific complaints. Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood. But now there are all these charter schools and magnet schools that you have to "finagle" to get into. (Obama herself attended a magnet school, but never mind.) Health care is out of reach [she should know: she earns over $300,000 at her sinecure at The University of Chicago Hospitals] ("Let me tell you, don't get sick in America"), pensions are disappearing, college is too expensive, and even if you can figure out a way to go to college you won't be able to recoup the cost of the degree in many of the professions for which you needed it in the first place. "You're looking at a young couple that's just a few years out of debt," Obama said. "See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn't have trust funds. I'm still waiting for Barack's trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s'posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!" (emphasis added)

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According to one news report, Obama enjoyed the Christmas holidays in Chicago last year.  I quote:

I shall demonstrate elsewhere that what is often called the black soul is white man's artifact.

- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

"Committed Christian" Barack Obama claims he never heard controversial remarks while attending the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, in his essay entitled "On My Faith and My Church" on 14 March 2008 at The Huffington Post.  I quote:

Posted on behalf of No Quarter blogger City Nell

The Obamas' new home has received a lot of attention in the corporate media and on the blogs. This post will discuss other perspectives.