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'Got polio?' messaging underscores a vaccine campaign's success but creates false sense of security as memories of the disease fade in US

“Got Polio? Me neither. Thanks, Science.”

The Conversation

Women's Day 2023: International Women's Day slogans, quotes, sayings and phrases

Not just one day but all days must belong to women. March 8th marks the International Women’s Day. The day began to be celebrated when 15,000 women marched through New York City calling for shorter hours, higher pay, and the opportunity to vote in 1908. A year later, the first…

The Times of India

Uniting America review: how FDR and the GOP beat fascism home and away

Charles Lindbergh casts a shadow over Peter Shinkle’s new book, which ends with a warning about Trump and his party

The Guardian - US

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Review: Ken Burns issues a chilling warning with ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

“The U.S. and the Holocaust,” the latest big PBS documentary from Ken Burns, is a different sort of film for him in that — unlike “Baseball” or “Jazz” or “Benjamin Franklin” — it seems very much a response to current events, made not just as a commemoration but as a…

Los Angeles Times

Who gets to tell the story of a historic civil rights site?

A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt

The Independent UK

Iriana also plays roles: Indonesia's first lady diplomacy complements Jokowi's effort as G20 president

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo attracted global attention when he paid a visit to Ukraine and Russia last month. But fewer observers and public noticed that his wife, First Lady Iriana Widodo, also accompanied him on the trip – including to Kyiv, the city currently deemed as the world’s most…

The Conversation

Actress Gillian Anderson hopes new TV roles will see her 'play some psychopaths'

Gillian Anderson talks about her life and career, from being a rebellious teenager taking drugs, to roles in cult hit the X Files and more recently in Sex Education and The Great

Daily Mirror

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I quit! The art of writing the great resignation letter

Oliver Dowden’s wounded farewell note last week was full of the kind of passive aggression found in classics of the genre

The Guardian - UK

The First Lady review: Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis can’t save this confused period drama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama get the crusty, historical treatment in this plodding 10-part show

The Independent UK

Emmys 2022: Limited series race again offers too many choices, not enough slots

Here we are, six months into the year and the front-runners in the limited series categories remain the same shows we watched and loved from 2021 — HBO's sharp satire of entitlement, "The White Lotus" (which premiered nearly a year ago) and two series from October, Netflix's intimate drama "Maid"…

Los Angeles Times

What links Eleanor Roosevelt and The Simpsons to James Callaghan’s daughter?

With the launch of TV drama The First Lady, we go down the rabbit hole with Michelle Pfeiffer, Nora Ephron and Bill Clinton

The Guardian - UK

Inside the remarkable lives of America's first ladies in exciting new TV series

A new TV series called The First Lady will look at the lives of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt – played by Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson

Daily Mirror

Jimmy Carter and disability rights

In 1977, people with disabilities occupied federal buildings across America. It was the beginning of something big

Salon

Robin Abcarian: The toxic femininity of the Kardashian clan

To paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, no one can make you watch "The Kardashians" without your consent.

Los Angeles Times

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Salon

First Lady doesn't live up to its icons

Not even Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson and Michelle Pfeiffer can save this loose braid of slight biographical drama

The Independent UK

'First Lady' drama spotlights Roosevelt, Ford, Obama spouses

Showtime's series “The First Lady” dramatizes the lives of three presidential spouses during their time in and outside the White House

Chicago Tribune

‘The First Lady’ review: Famous actors take on roles of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt in a series that needs to dig deeper

Would Showtime’s “The First Lady” work better if it hadn’t cast such famously recognizable actors to play Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt? Who’s to say, but I found it more difficult than usual to suspend my disbelief over the course of this 10-part series, which toggles between the…

Chicago Sun-Times

Showtime series skims the surface of three compelling women’s stories in ‘The First Lady’

The writing is often clunky, obvious and filled with Big Picture Messaging, and too many of the supporting characters are one-note caricatures.

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The Guardian - US

The First Lady review – star-studded series is a third-rate disappointment

The series on three first ladies falls flat despite a stacked cast, including Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt

Benzinga

This Day In Market History: Investors Unfazed By FDR's Death

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On April 13, 1945, stocks traded higher after U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. Where The Market Was: The Dow finished the day at 159.75. The S&P 500 traded at…

Evening Standard

The First Lady on Paramount+ review - gorgeous, but this tale of the presidents’ women needs to dig deeper

Two episodes in, it remains to be seen whether the hidden depths of these trailblazing women will be properly plumbed

Tribune News Service

Spring 2022 TV preview: What to watch, try and avoid

Spring is sprung and winter seems to be properly over, but binge-watch weather is in the eye of the beholder.

Zenger

The Woman Whose Tireless Efforts Helped Launch The Famed Tuskegee Airmen

Mary McLeod Bethune's friendship with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt led to the desegregation of pilot training programs.

Chicago Sun-Times

Late Native Hawaiian hula teacher to appear on US quarter in 2023

Edith Kanaka’ole joins four other women will also be featured on quarters: Bessie Coleman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jovita Idár and Maria Tallchief.

Al Jazeera

Racism and the roots of conservative philanthropy in the US

How a backlash against racial liberalism led to the rise of a philanthropy that discourages discussions on race.

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