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Breast cancer awareness is not enough

We are all great at gestures of support; I would just like us to start backing up those words with our actions.

FSU Flambeau

Think pink

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we're betting you've never seen it done like this. Tallahassee is painting the town pink.

Tallahassee Democrat

Red-flag warnings

Too often the red flags still are missed or ignored in troubled domestic relationships, allowing bad situations to fester.

Tallahassee Democrat

Schneider: Women should fight for rights

The point here is NOT to suggest women should be single-issue voters or align politically by gender, it is to urge women to fight for their rights.

Sarasota Observer

Did the system fail a victim?

The Shelter for Abused Women and Children of Collier County is part of a team.

Naples Daily News

Carlton: A party platform without choice is an injustice to victims

Can reasonable people really believe there should be no choice, under any circumstance, even in what happened to this child?

Tampa Bay Times

Another step for equality

Her achievement owes much to the generations to which her mother and grandmother belong; the "shoulder pad" feminists of the seventies and eighties.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Team leader

The only surprise about a spate of recent news coverage of a female high school quarterback is that it's still news in 2012.

Orlando Sentinel

Rape is a polictically volatile topic

It makes me feel good knowing that men and women alike can recognize there’s something wrong with the way our society treats women.

FSU Flambeau

Augusta does right thing

Maybe the best reaction is, "What took so long?"

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Tucker: GOP shows its hostility to women's rights

As Mitt Romney worked to clean up the mess left by Todd Akin, GOP activists made sure that his ludicrous comments would continue to hound Republicans.

Tallahassee Democrat

A stroke of progress at Augusta

After 80 years of operating as the ultimate good old boys secret society, Augusta National Golf Club finally admitted two women this week.

Tampa Bay Times

Random thoughts of a free Black mind, v. 150

INSANELY wrong. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a light-skin’ded, high-yaller, redboned, or pecan-tanned person in ‘Black’ America…

Daytona Times/Florida Courier

Legitimate talk on rape needed

"Legitimate rape" was cold water in the face of victims' advocate Gina Costa, executive director of the Victim Service Center of Central Florida.

Orlando Sentinel

Jackson: Pro-lifers can turn gaffe into gift

If life in the womb is potentially human and has committed no capital offense, what sort of people look away while others arrange its termination?