On the Record

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Donald Trump’s illegal mobilization of the National Guard and the Marines has nothing to do with restoring order—protests are mostly small, and peaceful—and everything to do with sowing chaos and squelching dissent.  Here’s a visual timeline from the G Read more …

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 …

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 …

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 …

May 5th is the National Day of Awareness for our Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR), when we work to raise awareness and honor the memory of Indigenous women who were stolen, and honor those who are still missing. It is also Read more …