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Aug 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Lori Sokol
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Lori Sokol
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Lori Sokol
I grew up in a white, racist family—really racist. Words like the "Blacks," the "Coloreds" and even the "N" word were spewed with abandon on an almost daily basis inside the walls of my childhood home. Attacked relentlessly for every problem in my parents' lives, from not earning enough money to not feeling safe in the streets, they eagerly projected their blame, and their shame, onto Black people.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
womensenews.org | Lori Sokol
I grew up in a White, racist family. Really racist. Words like the “Blacks,” the “Coloreds” and even the ‘N’ word were spewed with abandon on an almost daily basis in my childhood home. Attacked relentlessly for every problem in my parents’ lives, from not earning enough money to not feeling safe in the streets, they eagerly projected their blame, and their shame, onto Black people.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
womensenews.org | Lori Sokol
Lori Sokol, PhD. is Executive Director and Editor–in-Chief of Women’s eNews, an award-winning, non-profit digital news service that provides coverage of the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world. An award-winning journalist, her articles have been published in Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, Slate.com, Ms. Magazine and in The Huffington Post. She has also been interviewed on a variety of news outlets including MSNBC, CNBC, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
womensenews.org | Lori Sokol
This week’s guest is, DONNA ZACCARO, a documentary filmmaker and a film production company president known for: To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor (2017), Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way (2014) and #NYWomxn Story Hour (2020);She also serves as Board President of Eleanor’s Legacy, a statewide organization that works to recruit, train, and support pro-choice Democratic women at the state and local level in New York.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
msmagazine.com | Lori Sokol
“I’m 90?!” my mother horrifyingly exclaimed the day I told her she reached this extraordinary birthday milestone. “Ooooh, don’t tell anybody!” she warned, cautioning me to keep quiet about what seemed, to her, to be a fate worse than death. Although her memory was already fading to where she could no longer remember what day, month or year it was, she remained steadfast enough to ensure that no one ever knew her real age.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
womensenews.org | Lori Sokol
This essay originally appeared in Ms. Magazine. “I’m 90?!” my mother horrifyingly exclaimed the day I told her she reached this extraordinary birthday milestone. “Ooooh, don’t tell anybody!” she warned, cautioning me to keep quiet about what seemed, to her, to be a fate worse than death. Although her memory was already fading to where she could no longer remember what day, month or year it was, she remained steadfast enough to ensure that no one ever knew her real age.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
womensenews.org | Lori Sokol
Did You Know? Four out of 10 travelers with disabilities have had their mobility aid lost or damaged by an airline, while six in 10 have experienced extended wait times for mobility assistance at the airport before and after a flight. In fact, during the first quarter of 2021, airlines reported 712 mishandled wheelchairs or scooters — which amounts to almost eight per day.
