HeyJaredPINK THREADS by Elisabeth Griffith
These snippets about American women, stitching together individuals and events, create a colorful quilt from the patchwork of our history, weaving a tapestry from many strands, knitting connections, perhaps mending the fabric of our democracy with facts.
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SENATE SISTERHOOD, 9.25.2026 (opens the original)
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The recent deaths of Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem overshadowed another passing. The death on August 21 of former Kansas Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, a moderate Republican, was not announced on the front page of national newspapers. Nor was her 1978 election, when she became only the fourth woman to win a full term in the US Senate.Since 1920, sixty-five women have served in the Senate: 39 Democrats, 25 Republicans and one Independent, Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona), who caucused with the D
MISS AMERICA, September 7-8, 1921, 1968, 1983, 2026 (opens the original)
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The 1920s expanded the expectations and images of American women. They included flappers and feminists, aviators and “It Girls,” girl detectives like Nancy Drew, Betty Crocker and bathing beauties. Almost all of them were white women.Republican President Warren Harding won in a landslide because he promised a return to “normalcy” after America’s first engagement in a European war, a global pandemic, widespread labor unrest and raging racial violence. What Americans got was the Roaring Twenties.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2026: GLORIA STEINEM: Gloria in Excelsis (opens the original)
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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday, at age ninety-two.She had been on the front lines of the fight for equal rights for six decades. The journalist and activist supported farm workers, civil rights, women’s rights and reproductive rights and opposed apartheid, genital mutilation, sexual harassment and sex trafficking. In 1972, she founded Ms. magazine. “I am an entrepreneur of social change,” she said. “I raise money. I talk. I write. I tell stories.”<a class="image-link image2 is-
8.31.26: LOOSE ENDS (opens the original)
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I’m drafting this summary in the Sierra Nevadas, where I’ve been hiking in Yosemite National Park. It is stunningly beautiful, dramatic, serene, vast and overwhelming. One runs out of adjectives to describe the granite cliffs, sequoia groves, vast meadows and water features, although, due to less snow last winter, the landmark waterfalls are dry.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PHf8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fs
AUGUST 28, 1955: EMMETT TILL: MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI (opens the original)
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This essay about Emmett Till’s murder describes racial violence and sharp divisions in our country’s past. That legacy lingers. Seventy years ago, an account of the murder was purposely distorted by a supposedly reputable journalist. Only recently have facts corrected his false narrative, which is one reason I’m reissuing this revised essay. I hope PINK readers find it worth revisiting.On Sunday, August 28, 1955, eight years before the day Dr. King described his dream for America on the steps of
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