Employees of Amazon and Starbucks are making progress in their unionization efforts with these giant companies. The timing for bringing forward legislation in the Senate that would strengthen efforts of workers to organize is called for. In his State of the Union Message, President Biden called for passage of the PRO Act. As we move Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week is the fifth anniversary of the Black Mamas Matters Alliance’s “Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW),” and this year’s theme is “Building for Liberation: Centering Black Mamas, Black Families and Black Systems of Care.” Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related issues than white women due to multiple Read more …
The Normalization of Eating Disorder Culture in College Students TW: Mention of eating disorders, disordered eating, diet culture “Her body makes me want to go to an outpatient clinic. How am I supposed to eat in front of him!?” There have been more mornings than not where my friends and I share a laugh over Read more …
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and 122 co-sponsors have introduced legislation (H.R. 7062) to create a statue of the legendary hero of the Underground Railroad which will stand in the National Statuary Hall. Not only was Tubman known as “Moses” for guiding enslaved persons to freedom, but a campaigner for women’s equality and she held many Read more …
Christian F. Nunes MBA, MS, LCSW Christian F. Nunes, MBA, MS, LCSW, became NOW president in August 2020. She was previously appointed Vice President by the board in May 2019. As the second African American president in the organization’s history, Nunes is leading the organization through an intersectional lens, bringing a diverse coalition of grassroots Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The omnibus spending legislation that passed the Senate on a 68-31 vote finally reauthorizes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) —the federal law that commits resources to survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence for diverse communities across the country. NOW has long prioritized ending violence against women as one of our Read more …
VAWA Is Ready for a Winning Senate Vote Tell the Senate: Bring it to the floor ASAP! REAUTHORIZE VAWA NOW! THE ISSUE NOW joins The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence to call on the Senate to bring VAWA to the floor for vote. The Task Force released a survey of American voters on Read more …
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“RUN NOW was the best training I could have ever asked for…I took my current skills and was able to transfer them to a campaign in a way that helped my candidate tremendously.” – California NOW member and RUN NOW participant, Monica Podlesh
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 …