“The hats started because she was a lawyer when there were very few women lawyers and therefore in a courtroom she was ...

A new documentary traces the trailblazing legacy of the feminist congresswoman, but a conflict between her daughter and the filmmaker has clouded its opening. By Liam Stack The jam-packed documentary ...

Hillary Clinton’s expected announcement Sunday that she will seek the Democratic nomination for president a second time is the culmination of decades of hard work and strategic maneuvering. But behind ...

A new podcast aims to highlight the historic Bronx native, Battling Bella Abzug, a civil rights activist, political ...

One hundred years ago, on July 24, 1920, Bella Savitzky was “born yelling” in the Bronx, a month before the 19th Amendment gave women the vote. A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, ...

Next month, the PBS series "American Masters" will air a new episode about a one-time national icon who would likely have rejected the label “master”: Bella Abzug, the famed feminist and progressive ...

In 1995, former President George H.W. Bush and Bella Abzug both traveled to China. ‘’I feel somewhat sorry for the Chinese, having Bella Abzug running around,” he whined at a meeting with food ...

(JTA) — Bella Abzug, the feminist who burst into Congress battling for equal rights in 1970, was often caricatured in the media of her time. She was labeled “belligerent” and “bellicose Bella” in ...

Is one hotel bathroom big enough for personalities as outsized as Harvey Fierstein and Bella Abzug? The playwright’s Bella Bella, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Off Broadway venue in ...

On Bella Abzug’s first day in Congress, January 21, 1971, the doorkeeper of the House of Representatives stopped her and told her to remove her floppy, broad-rimmed hat. “Fuck you,” she is said to ...