Girls’ of Color Educational Needs Are Equally Critical to those of Boys of Color
NOW and DC NOW oppose plans for boys-only high school and say that girls of color should not be excluded.
issue: Promoting Diversity & Ending Racism
On Baltimore
I haven’t talked about Baltimore very much. Honestly, I haven’t really even thought about it much, because thinking about it makes me so angry and frustrated and I’m tired of feeling that way. But it doesn’t go away just because I try not to think about it, so I’m going to write a little bit Read more …
Challenges Faced by African-American Girls Deserve Equal Attention
For some time, the National Organization for Women has been advocating that there needs to be a parallel effort to the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) initiative which focuses entirely on helping Black boys and men. The picture of African-American girls detailed at a Congressional briefing and in a new report is so compelling that anyone Read more …
The Women of #BlackLivesMatter
Like many of those in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Elzie came into activism not through an organization or institution, but through Twitter. Many of those new activists and organizers, like Elzie, have been women. As a result, the visible leadership of Ferguson protest, in comparison to that of past civil-rights struggles, has been much less male. I talked to Elzie by phone about how women have been involved in the protests, and what that means for the movement.
The Oscars Haven’t Been This White in 19 Years
Today’s Oscar nominations contained a host of snubs that have critics and commentators up in arms (as they do every year). But the optics of this year’s slate are particularly egregious when you combine the surprising coolness towards Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma—nominated for Best Picture but missing in the Director, Actor, and Screenplay categories—with the fact that all 20 acting nominees this year are white, the first time such a thing has happened since the Oscars honoring the films of 1995.
