The Hawaiʻi State Public Library System will host its annual Summer Reading Challenge starting next month. "E Heluhelu Kākou: Seeds of Knowledge" is this year's theme. Libraries want to encourage readers of all ages to celebrate Hawaiʻi for its heritage, food, arts and more.
State Senators and abortion-rights advocates gathered in front of the Patsy T. Mink statue at the Hawaiʻi State Library in Honolulu on Tuesday to recognize a bill that would protect out-of-state patients and doctors who receive or perform abortions in Hawaiʻi from being penalized.
Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discrimination based on sex, turned 50 on Thursday. To mark the occasion, an official portrait of the late Title IX champion Patsy Mink was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol.