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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 …

November 18, 2025, marks Native Women’s Equal Pay Day — falling within Native American Heritage Month and underscoring a painful truth about economic inequality in the United States. This date represents how far into the year Native women must work to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned the year before. Native American women continue to Read more …

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