Harlem Social Aid and Pleasure Club

carpe-cerevisi:

eleanorguide:

Tina Brown’s first issue of Newsweek features Hillary Clinton on its cover. Of the six stories highlighted there, three are about women:

• “150 women who shake the world”
• “Women make lousy men” by Kathleen Parker
• “Hillary’s War: How she’s shattering glass ceilings everywhere”

On “This Week with Christianne Amanpour,” Brown said:

“I think what’s interesting right now is that Hillary Clinton, in fact, has actually at last met her moment, in a sense. Because her long-held conviction has always been that women are the leading indicator. That if you empower women, you’re gonna make huge changes in the democracy movement and, of course, in the GDP of the countries concerned. And she’s been pounding that drum for a long time. So this issue of Newsweek, you see her really in action, what she is doing. We followed her, for instance, on a trip to Yemen just a few weeks before the Arab revolution and saw her conducting a really robust town hall, where people were being encouraged to talk, were being encouraged to ask about women’s rights. And after that meeting, she met with a few of the women who clustered around her and asked her and said, ‘Can you help us educate women here, about the country here?’ “

Words can’t describe how much I love this woman.

(via thekathunt)

tendon:

New Banksy in NOLA

seriousladies:

I cannot wait for the Hallmark Original,  Congresswoman Chellie Pingree: From Craft Store to Capitol Hill

In 1981, she started North Island Yarn, a cottage industry of local knitters, with a retail store on the island. The business expanded quickly, becoming North Island Designs, and employed as many as ten local workers in peak seasons. The business sold knitting kits and pattern books nationwide through 500 retail stores and 100,000 mail order catalogues. She sold the business in 1993.

Knitting = change we deserve

52books:

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.” 

— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn