UPDATE: Harriet Tubman Statue Bill
March 19, 2011
Wendy Thompson
Editor-in-Chief
Lynette Long
(Photo above: Supporters of the Harriet Tubman statue, taken prior to the hearing in the House of Delegates)
UPDATE: Harriet Tubman Statue Bill
According to Linda Mahoney, president of Maryland NOW, the Washington Post is predicting a vote in the Senate committee soon. Mahoney stresses that “we need to contact the committee members – especially the Senate committee – today. The message should be that even if the committee member can’t personally support the legislation, [...]
Lynette Long: Putting Harriet Tubman and women in their place
March 1, 2011
Wendy Thompson
Editor-in-Chief
Lynette Long
“In Statuary Hall itself, there are thirty-eight statues – one woman. And in the entire collection, which are dispersed throughout the Capitol, there are nine women from a hundred – two from each state. So it’s unbelievable…I’m so passionate about this project, and it’s not for me. It’s for the next generation of girls who go in there and get a message that you don’t matter. You don’t matter. You didn’t do anything. [...]