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A march supporting Martin Luther King Jr.s dream of equality took place on Jan. 17 in Ogden, Utah. (Nikki Dorber/The Signpost)

Marching toward the future of equality

Alexandrea Bonilla January 19, 2022

On Aug. 28, 1963, over 200,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to march for economic rights and equality. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I...

Lecturer Susan Goodier discusses political cartoons and their place in the suffrage movement.

A war of cartoons in the suffrage movement

Lissete Landaverde September 28, 2020

Suffrage and anti-suffrage ideas weren't just expressed through protests and oration; sometimes, activists expressed their thoughts through cartoons.Susan Goodier, lecturer of history at SUNY Oneonta and...

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discussed the history of womens suffrage in a lecture for the Beyond Suffrage series.

A broader look at women’s right to vote over the centuries

Lissete Landaverde September 21, 2020

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and history professor at Harvard University, gave her presentation on the first women to vote in the United States on Sept. 3 through Zoom, followed...

Seraph Young, one of the first women voting Photo credit: Kierstynn King

Utah women work for voting rights

Kierstynn King September 14, 2020

Katherine Kitterman, historical director for Better Days 2020, presented her lecture about Utah women’s unique work for voting rights through YouTube on Sept. 1 as a part of the Beyond Suffrage...

Community members in Ogden held a rally to Unite the Families. (Sara Parker / The Signpost)

Community members rally for family unification

Jennifer Guzman July 3, 2018

On June 20, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at calming the public outcry over the separation of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.The “zero tolerance” policy initially...

British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses a press conference at the end of the first day of the EU spring summit on March 9, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ye Pingfan/Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS)

Do you know your news: July 11

Ashton Corsetti July 10, 2017

1. World leaders gathered at this meeting in Hamburg, Germany last week:a) Group of Sevenb) Group of 12c) Group of 202. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes President Donald Trump took what stance...

(Maddy Van Orman / The Signpost)

Nevertheless she persisted, and I will too

Kellie Plumhof February 27, 2017

  "I need a couple of strong boys to help me carry these boxes to the office," I remember my third grade teacher said to our class. Without hesitation, I walked right up to the teacher's...

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