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A Reason to Celebrate Holiday Celebration Fetes Season, Rep. Forry, Governor-Elect Patrick
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Rep. Forry's Op-Ed in the Boston Globe The Boston Globe
Op-Ed, November 9, 2006
LINDA DORCENA FORRY
Marriage rights go beyond the ballot
By Linda Dorcena Forry | November 9, 2006
IN 2000, the same year that my white husband and I, a black woman, exchanged vows in a Dorchester church, voters in Alabama were asked to go to the polls to take a law off the books that once made interracial marriage a crime. For much of our nation's history, such anti miscegenation statutes were the law of the land, not only in the deep South, but throughout the United States. [read more]
Rep. Forry Featured in Boston Globe Magazine Boston Globe Magazine, November 5, 2006
Our Other Gender Gap
Only one outcome is certain in Tuesday's election: Women won't be flooding into the Massachusetts Legislature. In fact, their numbers will likely fall. But why?
By Nan Levinson
THIS ELECTION SEASON, ONE CHANGE IN MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNMENT IS attracting little notice. Come January, Beacon Hill will likely hit a six-year low in the number of female legislators. A self-styled citadel of progressive politics, Massachusetts ranks second among states in its percentage of women with at least four years of college, fifth in the percentage of women with managerial or professional positions at work, fifth in women's median annual earnings - and 19th in the percentage of women in its Legislature. And a look at who's on ballots around the state shows that the number will almost certainly drop. [Read the full text from Boston.com] |
