Over decades, advocates employed such methods as petitions, public demonstrations, organized marches and legal challenges until the movement finally achieved victory with the ratification of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920, when women were finally granted the legal right to vote.
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Leslie Hoyle Guerra,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
More than 120,000 people have signed petitions calling for the rapper cum right wing political activist to be deported to her home country of Trinidad.
Seneca’s and Cicero’s invocations of humanitas were as double-edged as our own talk of the humanities, pointing at once to a body of knowledge and to a moral choice that learning might inspire.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 Dec. 2025
Zed has led invocations for the Idaho Senate and Boise City Council.
Payments will be distributed after the settlements are approved and any appeals are resolved.
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Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
Both sides also had filed appeals, with DMACC challenging the judge's injunction and Drake arguing that Rose wrongly excluded from her injunction a block D with a bear paw logo, previously used by DMACC in connection with its Bears athletics teams.
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William Morris,
Des Moines Register,
8 Jan. 2026
Kibandi discussed with us about the power of art in creating change and how photography can be a vehicle for culture expanding orisons for girls and women.
But despite his entreaties, including meeting with Putin in Alaska, floating sanctions relief, and threatening to cut off aid to Kyiv, the Russian president has refused to be charmed into giving up on his invasion.
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Mira Rapp-Hooper,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
However, so far, WBD has turned down the Ellison entreaties.
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