Duke may be “The King of the Dance, 2010,” but it remains to be seen who will be “Queen of the Dance.” We’ll find out tonight when UCONN, on a 77-game winning streak, attempts to secure another national championship. The Huskies play the Stanford Cardinals, the last team they lost to, for that championship tonight. You can watch on your local ESPN channel, beginning at 8:30 EST.
UCONN Huskies' Maya Moore
If you have never watched a women’s basketball game, I highly encourage you to catch this game. Before 2003, when ESPN …

The following op-ed by The New Agenda’s Amy Siskind is posted at The Daily Beast here.
Women voters are fed up with the state of America’s leadership, and are ready to elect a female president. Amy Siskind on why Sarah Palin—or someone else—needs to step up and capitalize on women’s outrage.
Women voters, who have decided almost every modern-day election, are up for grabs. Women are a force behind the Tea Party movement, and are marching away from the Democrats in dismay. Could the country’s disenfranchisement …

The following press release has been sent to the media.
For Immediate Release
The Supreme Court is Still Stacked Against Women

The New Agenda calls on President Obama to select a woman to fill Justice Stevens’ seat
The New Agenda, a non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls women is calling on President Obama to fill the seat that will be vacated by Justice Stevens with a qualified woman.  Even with President Obama’s selection of Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, women are still under-represented in the Supreme …

The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
Women were notably absent from the list of technology experts asked to review Apple’s new iPad. At first glance this might seem like a slight to women’s tech expertise. In fact, all the single ladies are the largest marketing demographic for growth in the United States, and the most actively-ignored demographic across the board.
As recently as 2009, marketing execs overlooked unmarried women entirely, favoring immigrants or the recently come-of-age Generation Y. But …

The opinions expressed herein are those of Joan Sweeny, Producer of Follow the Prophet, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
When my partner at Red Road Productions, Robert Chimento, first gave me the script of  Follow the Prophet I couldn’t imagine that the story was based on truth – until I started reading the research…
Follow the Prophet is the story about a young girl escaping from a Polygamy cult; an edge of your seat thriller that explores how brainwashing is used to promote ritualistic underage …

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Check out Justice Thomas’s wife standing up for what she believes:
In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative “core principles,” she said.
The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources — including corporations — as allowed under …

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Hurray for Demi Moore for starting a conversation on twitter regarding the casual use of the word “pimping”! The Boom Box gives the summary:
“Are you using the word ‘pimpin’ as in pimping?” asked Moore. Kardashian replied, “Doesn’t everyone? LOL.”
“No disrespect I love a girls night out but a pimp and pimping is nothing more than a slave owner!” Moore retorted.
Bold counterpoint, Demi. This, of course, brought a ton of replies by fans and followers …

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Anyone who has been reading this blog a while knows I write profile pieces over important contemporary women. I have decided to stop writing profiles of women in politics. I cannot in good conscience write about women from all parties when I believe one of the dominant parties is blatantly against the best interests of women. But I had created short biographical profiles of other women such as Kathryn Bigelow and …