On the Record

This is Black Maternal Health Week, a week that celebrates the leadership and expertise of Black community-based organizations as the foundation for advancing equity and ensuring transformative, sustainable improvements in Black Maternal Health. BMHW i Read more …

April 7th is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Pay Day, the annual reminder of the persistent wage gap between men and women—specifically today between AANHPI women and white, non-Hispanic men. According to the National Read more …

March 31 is the global celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility, honoring trans and non-binary people and elevating voices and experiences from these communities. According to this background from GLAAD, “International TDOV was create Read more …

March 25 is Equal Pay Day, the date calculated to be the point where women’s earnings catch up to what men earned in the previous year.   It’s a stark reminder of how far women still have to go to close gender and race-based pay gaps, and what NOW memb Read more …

International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, origin Read more …

Earlier today I sent this statement to the press.  NOW members can demonstrate a better use of our time than watching Donald Trump’s speech—we can disrupt, organize, and push back!  -Christian  “Don’t Watch Trump’s Lies—Organize!”  Statement by NOW Pre Read more …

February 11 has been designated Safer Internet Day since 2003, where the global community comes together to raise awareness and work to build a safer and more responsible internet, where everyone is empowered to use technology responsibly, respectfully Read more …

Observances like Black History Month are an essential part of the authentic story of our country.  Attacks on so-called critical race theory in schools and D.E.I. programs welcomed by industry and institutions are actually part of the honest history we Read more …

Just a few days after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President, on January 22 we also saw the 52nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Roe v. Wade, the constitutional protection of a woman’s right to abortion care.   Trump took the Read more …

The idea to establish the third Monday of January as a national holiday recognizing the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an early response to his horrific murder on April 4, 1968, outside a motel in Memphis, but it took years of campaignin Read more …