In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

Georgetown University’s Department of Performing Arts is performing Bitter Flower, a play that examines the racism of the white suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Written by ...

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - As the United States celebrates 250 years of independence in 2026, WBEN is taking a look back on Buffalo and Western New York's role in the history of the country. Buffalo and ...

It took decades of protest, organized demonstrations and more for the U.S. to enshrine in its constitution that a citizen could not be prevented to vote based on sex. The decision, passed in June 1919 ...

The Wolverhampton-born singer stars as suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in Sylvia the musical.

Women’s Social and Political Union Exhibition stand, probably at Claxton Hall during the Women’s Parliament, February 1908 (Image courtesy Museum of London) In 2009, a striking collection of some ...

It's a story set more than a hundred years ago, yet its message echoes with a modern-day resonance. "Suffragette" (in theaters Friday) follows members of the British suffrage movement in the early ...

Hate is a strong word and apologies to the fans queuing round the block to catch the latest hit, but as a genre, musicals ...