What her famous mother did as Texas governor, Cecile carried on by standing up a range of progressive and pro-choice organizations.
As we mourn the loss of activist, organizer, and former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, I offer words of wisdom she shared with me in our interviews over the years.
It turned out there was a good reason. FBI Director James Comey had just sent his infamous letter to Congress reopening the official investigation into Hillary’s emails, throwing the election into turmoil in the home stretch. Hillary and her top advisers were huddling on the plane, trying to figure out how to weather this one last blow.
Richards was a major force in Texas and national politics. Like her mother, former governor Ann Richards, Cecile spent most of her life rallying for progressive causes. Richards was a labor organizer, a staffer to Representative Nancy Pelosi, and then president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018.
Cecile Richards, a national leader for women's rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died.
Cecile Richards died Monday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement.
Trump pardoned around 1,500 defendants, including six officers from the Seattle Police Department who formed the largest known cop contingent at the January 6 Capitol riot. With a stroke of his pen, Trump erased all consequences for his supporters,
She was a fierce advocate for reproductive rights and a powerful voice in the ongoing fight for safe and legal abortion access
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell remembers the legacy of Cecile Richards, longtime president of Planned Parenthood and frequent guest of The Last Word who dedicated her life to fighting to protect women’s rights.
After a devastating cancer diagnosis, the reproductive rights champion fought a battle on two fronts. Here, printed in full for the first time, is a conversation from last summer with the icon, who died on Monday at age 67.
Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone, Former Capitol Hill Police Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6th when a violent mob incited by Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol, and attacked police officers and law enforcement in an effort to overturn the 2020 Election join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to those who attacked those law enforcement officers being released back onto the streets of the United States by the 47th President of the United States on his second day in office.