Released on February 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Earlier this month, Delegate Danielle Walker, West Virginia’s only Black female lawmaker and a National NOW board member, received a grotesque, racist email that depicted a hooded Ku Klux Klan member giving a Nazi salute, with a message comparing her views on reproductive rights to the killing of children by Nazis. While Read more …
Released on February 28, 2022
Once again, the extremist wing of the Republican Party has put politics over women’s health, telling women their health and safety doesn’t matter.
Released on February 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Organization for Women (NOW) commends President Joe Biden’s anticipated historic nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ketanji Brown Jackson has the experience, background, and perspective that comes from not only her professional career but her lived experience as a Black woman in America. As Read more …
Released on February 24, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden is said to have narrowed his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court to three highly qualified Black women, fulfilling his campaign promise and correcting the shameful history of a Court where 94% of all Supreme Court Justices have been white men, 4% women, and less than 3% people of color. Read more …
Released on February 15, 2022
MEDIA ADVISORY February 15, 2022 Media Contact: press@now.org NOW to Host Annual Read more …