NOW Celebrates Civil Rights Signing Day

Released on July 2, 2025

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in history — the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  It prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national Read more …

Celebrating NOW Founding Day

Released on June 30, 2025

NOW was established 59 years ago today, on June 30, 1966.    Today, NOW remains the front-line, intersectional, grassroots arm of our movement, with a history, record and reach that is a testament to the energy and dedication of NOW members.  NOW began Read more …

NOW Marks Third Tragic Anniversary of Dobbs Decision

Released on June 24, 2025

Three years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tearing away the constitutional right to abortion care. The Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the first time in history the Supreme Court took away a fundamen Read more …

NOW Celebrates Juneteenth

Released on June 19, 2025

Juneteenth isn’t just a date on the calendar—it’s a powerful reminder that freedom isn’t free—it’s been fought for, delayed, denied, and taken back.    Juneteenth marks the day freedom finally came to Texas, when on June 19, 1865, a Union general infor Read more …

NOW’s Commitment on LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day 

Released on June 13, 2025

June 13 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day, a day to recognize the wage gap that continues to affect LGBTQIA+ communities.   According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research,    “On average, in 2021, LGBTQIA+ workers earned 90 cents per dolla Read more …

June Is National Immigration Heritage Month

Released on June 9, 2025

Immigration Heritage Month, first established in June 2014 and observed every year since, is a time to honor and celebrate the shared diversity that connects more than 40 percent of U.S. citizens who can trace their ancestry back to immigrants, and who Read more …

NOW Celebrates Pride Month

Released on June 1, 2025

On June 28, 1970, on the one year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising—six days of protest after a police raid of a popular gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village–the first Pride marches were held in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Since then, J Read more …

Our Commitment on George Floyd Remembrance Day

Released on May 25, 2025

Five years after the murder of George Floyd, the global movement his murder sparked a reckoning over police misconduct and racism that today is itself under attack.    The moves by the Justice Department to roll back police accountability agreements wi Read more …

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