MARCH 06, 2020Rewind
“The rock scene has long cried out for women with power, ideas and
an independent sense of style. Now, it seems, they’re emerging one
after another,” wrote Newsweek. The new women rockers are “turning old ideas
about pop’s feminine mystique inside out.” Said featured artist Cyndi Lauper,
“I’m not trying to be different. I’m just saying it’s OK to be yourself, and if you
have a few quirky things, that’s OK too.” Lauper’s message translates from the
’80s to today as the musical icon featured prominently in a 2020 Project Runway
challenge, proving that girls really do still want to have fun.
1975
Two years after Roe v. Wade, “complex
moral and medical questions” remained
on when life begins. Nevertheless,
Newsweek wrote, “as a matter of public
opinion and social policy, the right to an
early abortion now is ɿrmly established,
and some of the nation’s right-to-life
groups no longer seem opposed to
certain abortions.”1985
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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: HIRO ITO; LENNART NILSSON; KEN MURRAYThe Archives
1992
In the wake of a New York City school
shooting that killed two—and more than
seven years before the Columbine
school shooting in April 1999—
Newsweek asked, “Are classrooms
doomed to become free-ɿre ]ones"”
Tragically, the death toll keeps climbing
and lasting solutions remain elusive.