Peggie Gillom’s Elbow Gave Me a Fat Lip & I Got Dumped at Sorority/Frat Swap —

I woke up this morning to the news that Congress passed Title IX 50 years ago, when I was 14 and it was 1972. Basketball was my game. Yet colleges and universities have not fully complied with the law, resisted in many places then and now. A Champion Women’s report…

“We need to drive to the hospital. Your daddy is in the emergency room.” Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty If you missed this piece on The Daily Beast yesterday, please have a belated read of this Father’s Day story from January 17, 1971. By Karen Hinton Updated Jun. 19, 2022…

By Karen Hinton & Francis McInerney | Empire Report NY | June 14, 2022 If conservative Supreme Court justices rule as expected on abortion and gun rights this year, their judgments will inch us closer and closer to taking away other constitutional rights — most of them hard-earned by and…

By Karen Hinton | June 5, 2022 | Empire Report NY I’m reading Joan DeJean’s book Mutinous Women about how French female convicts became the Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast. …

By Karen Hinton, New York Daily News, Jun 01, 2022 at 5:00 am My mother told me once abortions were wrong, but when a close relative of ours got a girl pregnant, Momma paid for it. They were 16-year-old classmates in a Mississippi high school. …

By Karen Hinton, New York Daily News, May 17, 2021 at 5:00 am (I wrote this piece only a few months before Cuomo resigned. Let’s never forget why.) Studies have shown that toxic work environments for women grow after a male boss or co-worker commits multiple incidents of sexual harassment…

What it’s like to work for Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio By Karen Hinton/New York Daily News/Feb 24, 2021 at 5:00 am I’ve worked for and with powerful men in and around politics my whole life. …