Press Releases

Black Maternal Health Week , held annually from April 11-17, is a campaign founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA) to build awareness, activism, and community. It amplifies voices and lived experiences to advocate for the elimination of maternal mortality.  Here’s BMMA’s toolkit with the core messages of Black Maternal Health Week and this year’s theme, “Rooted in Justice & Joy.”  NOW members are using this week to recommit to the federal Momnibus Act — the comprehensive solution to America’s Read more …

March is Women’s History Month. Like every milestone along the timeline of women’s rights, this recognition has not come easily.  The historian Gerda Lerner, one of the founders of the academic field of women’s history, said, “When I started working on women’s history the field did not exist. Men didn’t think that women had a history worth knowing.”  Some still don’t.  In Read more …