If Rick Santorum could leave me, my vagina, and what I do with my vagina alone, that’d be great.

Eunice W. Johnson was an executive at Johnson Publishing Company. Johnson was best-known as the founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair, which was started in the 1950s as a hospital fundraiser and became an annual fashion tour that highlighted fashion for African-American women that ran until a year before hear death.

Born Eunice Walker on April 4, 1916, in Selma, Alabama, she graduated with a degree in sociology from Talladega College in 1938. She met her future husband, John H. Johnson, in 1940 while she was attending Loyola University Chicago and was married after she earned her master’s degree the following year.

Together with her husband, she established The Negro Digest in 1942, a magazine styled after Reader’s Digest. The rapid growth of their first publication encouraged them to create Ebony, a monthly designed to emulate Life and its style of boldly-photographed front covers. Johnson had been the one who suggested that the magazine be named for the dark wood. 

By the time of her death, Ebony reached a readership of 1.25 million, while its weekly companion Jet reached a circulation of 900,000.

The Ebony Fashion Tour began as a fundraiser that she created in 1958 for a hospital in New Orleans. In its half century of existence, the tour visited 200 cities across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, raising over $50 million for charity. The fashion tour was a pioneer in using African-American models on the runway and helped highlight the works of African-American designers. 

Building on her difficulties in finding cosmetics suited to the skin tones of her models, Johnson created Fashion Fair Cosmetics in 1973 as a line of makeup that would be sold in leading department stores.

Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin was involved in various activist organizations during her lifetime. During the Civil War she was involved not only in civil rights causes for freed and free blacks, but also heavily involved in the women’s suffrage movement.

In 1879 she established the Boston Kansas Relief Association, a charity organization that provided food and clothing to black Bostonians who were migrating to Kansas.

From 1890 to 1897 Ruffin served as the editor and publisher of Woman’s Era, the first newspaper published by and for African American women. It was used to highlight the achievements of African American women and to champion black women’s rights. 

She was also close friends with Susan B. Anthony and Booker T. Washington.

In 1894 she organized the Women’s Era Club, an advocacy group for black women, with the help of her daughter Florida Ridely and Maria Baldwin, a Boston school principal. 

On a side note she was also married to George Lewis Ruffin, the first African American to graduate from Harvard Law School, the first African American to serve on the Boston City Council, and the first black judge in the United States.

Thanks nominated Republicans for making me feel this way.

I don’t give a fuck what you say. 

If the candidate is anti-choice. They are anti-women.

That’s just the truth. 

What else do you need to do after you take away a woman’s choice about what she wants to do with her own body?