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MAKING HISTORY: Gloria Steinem Creates Ms. Magazine

Gloria Steinem

In honor of Women's History Month, we are celebrating with 31 days of women's history! Every day in March, we will highlight an historic moment, as told through the personal stories of our MAKERS. Today we celebrate Gloria Steinem and the founding of the groundbreaking magazine, Ms. Read More

Happy Birthday, Gloria Steinem! Enjoy our MAKERS Playlist!

Happy Birthday, Gloria Steinem! Enjoy our MAKERS Playlist!

It's Gloria Steinem's birthday, and we thought we'd celebrate by letting our MAKERS share their personal stories of the feminist leader. So, enjoy as MAKERS Marlo Thomas, Amy Richards, Marie Wilson, Shelby Knox and Bonnie Schaefer talk about their loyal and compassionate friend in our special birthday playlist! Read More

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My Friend Gloria Steinem

My Friend Gloria Steinem

I first met Gloria Steinem a few months before her 58th birthday. Today she turns 79. Read More

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WATCH: Gloria Steinem's Advice to Young Women from the 92 St Y MAKERS Event

WATCH: Gloria Steinem's Advice to Young Women from the 92 St Y MAKERS Event

In the spirit of Women's History Month, MAKERS Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, Anu Bhagwati and Reshma Saujani and Executive Producers Betsy West and Dyllan McGee participated in a lively panel before a packed house at the 92nd St Y in New York City last week. Read More

A Glimpse Inside the "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" Premiere

A Glimpse Inside the "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" Premiere

The premiere of "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall was a MAKER-studded event that included not only the moving documentary but also a powerful line-up of presenters who had a lot to say about the extraordinary impact women have made in America in the last fifty years. Read More

Categories: MAKERS, Documentary

StyleList Reports From the "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" Red Carpet

StyleList Reports From the "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" Red Carpet

Our sister site StyleList was on the red carpet for the MAKERS: Women Who Make America premiere at Lincoln Center last night. Here's what they had to say! Read More

Categories: Documentary

Red Carpet Round-Up! Inside the Premiere of "MAKERS: Women Who Make America"

Allison Williams, Tavi Gevinson, Katie Couric

The red carpet premiere of the documentary "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" airing on PBS and proudly presented by AOL and Simple Facial Skincare put our incredible MAKERS in the spotlight. From icons of the Women's Movement like Gloria Steinem to newer faces like teen blogger Tavi Gevinson, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center was filled with some of the most groundbreaking women in America's last 50 years. Read More

Closer Look at TCA's "MAKERS: Women Who Make America" Panel

Gloria Steinem, Marlo Thomas, Barbara Burns

MAKERS and PBS were recently featured in a Television Critics' Association (TCA) panel on the upcoming documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America, the documentary which traces the last 50 years of the women’s moveme Read More

Categories: Documentary, In the News

Gerda Lerner— Fierce, Brilliant & Unique

Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. She understood, as Paula Gunn Allen wrote, that, "the root of oppression is the loss of memory." Read More

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