Released on August 11, 2025
August is Intersectionality Awareness Month, dedicated to exploring and understanding intersectionality, a term coined in the 1980s by UCLA and Columbia law professor of Kimberlé Crenshaw that seeks to define the overlapping oppressions that people who are part of multiple marginalized groups experience. “Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in Read more …
Released on July 28, 2025
WASHINGTON— July 28, 2025—National Organization for Women (NOW) members have elected long-time feminist activists Kim Villanueva president and Rose Brunache vice president of the nation’s largest feminist grassroots organization. “We believe NOW must be the national feminist engine it was created to be—action-focused, fearless, strategic, and unafraid to call out the bigots and misogynists,” said Read more …
Released on July 21, 2025
This month marks 35 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990, protecting the rights of people with disabilities against employment discrimination, while fostering inclusion in society. The goal was also to expand access to all levels of government, public establishments, transportation and communication, opening doors that Read more …
Released on July 17, 2025
Statement by National NOW President Christian F. Nunes The Justice Department’s decision to ask that the officer found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in 2020 be sentenced to one day in jail is one more step by this government towards injustice, and a betrayal of a jury’s verdict which held the Read more …
Released on July 10, 2025
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is the date on the calendar that symbolizes the additional time Black women in the United States must work into the current year to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned in the previous year. In 2025, that date is today, July 10. Black women earn, on average, about 66 cents Read more …
