Press Releases

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month—but you wouldn’t know it from listening to Donald Trump. He opened his second term by attacking Black history education as “indoctrination.” His administration has dismantled Black history exhibits at national parks and Smithsonian museums. His supporters have even launched a social studies curriculum in Texas that Read more …

January 22, 2026, marks 53 years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, recognizing the constitutional right to privacy and guaranteeing access to abortion across the United States. But that right was stripped away in 2022, when the votes of three Trump-appointed justices overturned Roe. Since then, 23 states have implemented full or Read more …

National Organization for Women (NOW) Turns 60  Year of Action Planned with Grassroots Members  WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 13, 2026 – This year marks six decades of the National Organization for Women (NOW) championing gender justice and mobilizing communities for social change. Founded in 1966 as a new civil rights organization, 28 visionary women drafted NOW’s groundbreaking statement Read more …

Walmart, Coors, ExxonMobil, and Others are Greenlighting Hate Speech Statement by National NOW President Kim Villanueva  WASHINGTON–The Heritage Foundation has doubled down on misogyny with the appointment of Scott Yenor to a senior leadership position. Yenor has called professional women ‘medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome.’  He has argued, ‘If we want a great nation, we should Read more …

Seventy years ago today, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of taking her expected place in the back — an area designated for African Americans — she chose a seat in the front. When the bus driver demanded that she stand, she calmly replied, “No.” And when he Read more …