NOW Commemorates MLK Day and Reaffirms Commitment to Racial Justice

Released on January 18, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, NOW reaffirms our commitment to continue fighting for racial justice and the lives and rights of Black people across the nation. In the last year, we have seen the impacts of structural racism dominate the news cycle again and again. From the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people of color, to the murders of George Read more …

NOW Condemns the Unjust Execution of Lisa Montgomery

Released on January 13, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The middle-of-the-night execution of Lisa Montgomery, hastened by the rush-to-execute mandate of Donald Trump’s Justice Department, was a shock to our system of fairness, justice, and decency.  In any other week, it would have been the worst imaginable example of such desecration.  Donald Trump’s abuse of power corrupts everything he touches, and Read more …

NOW Calls for Donald Trump’s Impeachment and Conviction

Released on January 11, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump must be impeached now, and for the sake of history.  He must stand in judgment before the Congress he defiled, desecrated and made into a target for insurrectionists who answered his call to be “wild” and stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.   And he must also be judged by Read more …

NOW Demands Equitable Treatment from Our Justice System

Released on January 7, 2021

Charge Violent Perpetrators as Domestic Terrorists & Institute a   National Day of Apology for Peaceful Protestors Who Were Excessively Policed in the Past  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Make no mistake. What we witnessed taking place in our Capitol yesterday was a painful dichotomy of restoring democracy and domestic terrorism. As the morning started, many of us were elated with happiness and celebrating the Georgia victory of Senator-elect Warnock and Read more …

Democracy Wins In Georgia

Released on January 6, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rev. Raphael Warnock’s stunning victory and Jon Ossoff’s apparent win in the Georgia Senate runoffs is the culmination of a grassroots surge that was years in the making.   This election broke early voting records, achieved record turnout among youth and Black voters, and built a tidal wave of democracy that elected the first Black Democratic senator from a formerly Confederate state.  And it is on Read more …