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VOICE LORE

First Draft of History: Covering Civil Rights in the Sixties

As an aspiring reporter, the author wrote about race issues as they moved from idealism to disillusion to anger to violence.

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Village Voice article by Annie Berke about women who helped creatively define early television programming.

CULTURE

The Women Behind the Screens During the Golden Age of Television

When they weren’t making coffee or cleaning ashtrays, women were setting the standards for a show streaming to you today.

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From the Village Voice Archive: In 1966 Marlene Nadle interviews Nathan Rappaport who provided abortions when it was mostly illegal in 1966.

From The Archives

The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”

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Women's History Month article about early female staffers at the Village Voice.

VOICE LORE

The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice

From our ‘Voice Lore’ print section: Though outnumbered five to one, women staffers stood tall at the Voice

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NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

For Women, 2018 Is the Best and Worst of Times

On the one hand, Emma González. On the other, Trump.

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