(CNN) Over the last 10 days, the Democratic and Republican conventions have inundated us with rivers of words and pictures. Some of the images stand out more than others and have already found an afterlife in GIFs and video clips. I remember the tears of happiness and amazement when Obama was elected. The right of African-Americans to vote at all was long contested, until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Women got the vote in 1920, but despite our country's notable progress in shifting attitudes about gender, inequities still rule on and off the job.

Source: CNN July 28, 2016 18:41 UTC