Civil Rights Activist Dorothy Height Dies

by ALLISON KEYES
Morning Edition
National Public Radio
April 20, 2010

...Harvard professor Charles Ogletree called Height "an absolute genius."

"Everything that we do today is influenced by her sacrifices decades ago, her marches as a teenager against lynching, her buying a building right on Pennsylvania Avenue to in a sense to talk about the slave trade, and her commitment to open up doors for others is unparalleled," Ogletree said...

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Equality for Women - "The Core of the Problem is Care"

Daniela Estrada interviews SONIA MONTAÑO, head of ECLAC's gender unit
April 12, 2010
Inter Press Service

"Women help to reduce poverty and raise family incomes, but they pay too high a price for it, because in every country their working days are longer than men's," said Sonia Montaño, head of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) Division for Gender Affairs...

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