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Five black women brought their ‘A game’ to the Super Bowl by Michelle D. Bernard February 5, 2013   Beyonce Knowles, center, performing at the Super Bowl. (Video) There’s been a lot of chatter over the lack of feminist outrage over Beyonce’s half time show which, as one blogger complained, was “overly sexy,”  and “felt […]

January 24, 2013   Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will announce that the Department of Defense will lift the ban on women serving in combat roles. This announcement comes on the heels of Wednesday’s hearing before the House Armed Services Committee on the Review of Sexual Misconduct by Basic Training Instructors at Lackland Air […]

Michelle Bernard Talks Politics Posted 10/12/2012 04:45PM Michelle Bernard, political and legal analyst, author, and CEO of the Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy, captivated the LC community Friday afternoon with her perspective on the upcoming election and state of politics in the U.S. She spoke to students and faculty about the game […]

Bernard Center president & CEO Michelle D. Bernard argues that in November, African Americans, women, and persons of color who embrace conservative principles will not look to the Republican party in pursuit of the promises of our Declaration of the Independence.

June 6, 2012 By, Michelle D. Bernard Despite all the gnashing of teeth over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s survival of a recall attempt, the broader national message isn’t the death of democracy. On the contrary, it’s that the American people are willing to make tough decisions to get their public finances under control. Wisconsin Republican […]

The Washington Post’s She The People, May 10, 2012 If only it were possible this Mother’s Day … I would thank Sojourner Truth and Harriett Tubman for their work in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements of their time. I would thank Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull for their dedication to women’s suffrage and […]

The Hill’s Pundits Blog, May 10, 2012, by Michelle D. Bernard The manner in which those who would be president view the basic civil liberties and rights of all Americans regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation says all that we need to know about the moral character of those who would be president […]

The Washington Post’s She The People, May 9, 2011 I am a Christian.  I believe that America is the greatest nation on earth.  I also believe that the much-ballyhooed fight to preserve the socially conservative notion of “traditional American family values” is nothing more than an attempt to go back in time to an era where […]

The Washington Post’s She The People A girl reads aloud in an unsanctioned girls school in Spina, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2012. The Taliban shuttered a U.S.-funded girls’ school in 2007, leaving some children to attend an unsanctioned school in a family’s living room. (Kevin Sieff/The Washington Post) President Obama was elected to fix the […]

There is absolutely a war on women being waged right now. In Afghanistan. In this file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women’s Prison in Afghanistan. (Suzanne […]