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 …
NOW Recognizes October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month Congress Must Renew VAWA and Acknowledge Intimate Partner Violence as a Public Health Issue WASHINGTON, D.C. — This October, as NOW recognizes Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we must also spotlight the crisis of intimate partner violence (IPV). This has become a serious public health issue, especially during the pandemic, where rates of domestic violence during lockdown increased by 8.1%, according Read more …
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Urge the Senate to Stop Delaying VAWA – Domestic Violence Is on the Rise BACKGROUND THE ISSUE: The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA or H.R. 1620) is urgently needed legislation that protects abuse survivors and allocates funding for survivor support services. Reauthorization of VAWA is now three years overdue – owing to Republican senators who would rather see VAWA expire. We’ve had it with their neglect of battered, raped and murdered women. WHY IT MATTERS: VAWA saves Read more …
When Mitch McConnell was Majority Leader, he proudly turned the Senate into a legislative graveyard where laws he considered “left-wing solutions” went to perish. In reality, he buried proposed solutions using a deeply racist and sexist system, all to maintain the status quo that does not include protecting or bettering the lives of women, marginalized communities, and communities of color. Now Senator McConnell is Minority Leader, but with an evenly-split Senate, Read more …
April 4 was the 53rd anniversary of the day that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. On that day, Dr. King’s daughter Bernice King tweeted an important message that we must all take to heart: “As you tweet about my father today, know that he organized Read more …
Register for April 21st: Building Generations of Intersectional Feminists Heather Booth Heather Booth is one of the country’s leading strategists about progressive issue campaigns and driving issues in elections. She started organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, and women’s movements of the 1960s. She started JANE, an underground abortion service in 1965, before Roe. Read more …
Register Here Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney -Keynote Speaker Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney has represented parts of New York City in Congress since 1993. She is the Chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform and former Chair of the Joint Economic Committee – the first woman to hold both gavels. A champion of women and families and equal rights for all, Congresswoman Maloney is the longtime House sponsor of the Read more …
Homelessness casts a dark shadow over the United States, affecting over 560,000 Americans nation-wide. While homelessness presents the ever-present struggle to find food, shelter, and basic resources, women are particularly affected. With every month comes a new menstrual cycle and the challenge to find expensive hygiene products, privacy to change those products, pain relief, and Read more …
There are few subjects more personal and urgent than the issue of violence against women. Ending violence against women and educating the public about resources for survivors is one of NOW’s core issues. I wrote recently in this column for PRISM, a national news outlet run by women of color, about my feelings as a Black mother of a Read more …