Category Archives: Human Rights

A SMATTERING OF WOMEN’S HISTORY

1597 Linen condom invented. Previous condoms had been made of animal membranes. 1869 The electric vibrator makes its debut with the invention of a steam-powered massager, patented by an American doctor and designed as a medical tool for treating “female … Continue reading

Posted in Human Rights, Women | Leave a comment

Fighting for Civil Liberties in the Land of the Free

In the Beginning In the dicey spring and summer of 1788, with the fate of the Constitution hanging by a thread and this land engulfed in bitter political feuding between Federalists and anti-Federalists, the anti-Federalist “Brutus” published a series of … Continue reading

Posted in Human Rights | Leave a comment

Challenging the Media Monopoly: Introducing the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center’s public i

This inaugural issue of the public i represents the birth of the only news-focused, collectively-run, non-profit newspaper in Urbana-Champaign. Continue reading

Posted in Arts, Community Forum, Education, Environment, Human Rights, IMC, International, Labor/Economics, Media, National, UC-IMC, Voices of Color | Leave a comment