The venue — the Javits Convention Center — was chosen carefully and strategically, as much for its large glass ceiling as for its capacity. It would be beautifully symbolic, the campaign assumed, to have Hillary Clinton, our newly elected first woman president, give her acceptance speech under that glass dome while celebrating that we’d finally broken that highest, hardest glass ceiling for women in America. Full Article Here.

Last week, President Biden announced his nomination of Julie Su to be the next secretary of the Department of Labor. For women, and especially for women of color, this is a huge victory. Julie Su has spent her career fighting for equity and inclusion in the workforce. And she’s exactly what our country needs: someone who knows firsthand the impacts of sexism and racism on workers’ well-being and who has the expertise and qualifications to create a more just economy—for all workers. Her nomination was a victory; now we need Senate leaders to confirm her. Full Article Here

In 2018 and 2020, women of color—voters, organizers, and political strategists—were key to securing victories in purple states and ultimately flipping the Senate in favor of the Democrats. In 2022, they're poised to transfer their political capital into a shot at governance, with more women of color running for office than in any previous election. But despite what they've built, these candidates are also facing extraordinary hurdles, often without sufficient support from the Democratic Party.

A recent report showed that Black and Latina candidates have less cash on hand for federal races than their white counterparts. Ahead of the midterms this year, white women have on average over twice as much cash on hand as Black women running for federal office. Women of color also lag far behind their male counterparts. In Texas, attorney general candidate Rochelle Garza is running the most competitive statewide race in Texas, yet she remains in Beto O'Rourke's shadow. In his bid for Texas governor, O'Rourke has pulled in over $25 million in Q3 compared to Garza's $1.6 million. As O'Rourke joins celebrities like Harry Styles in the limelight, Garza is battling low name recognition—an issue too many women of color candidates face as a direct result of insufficient funding, resources, and support. Full Article Here

As voters prepare to head to the polls across the United States in November, Black women will once again be looked to as the first line of defense in staving off GOP overreach and countering policies that are not only unpopular but also violate our basic human rights. We did it in 2020, helping Democrats take the Senate and the White House while also electing a Black and South Asian woman as vice president for the first time.

But Black women aren’t just showing up to the polls. From state Attorney General Letitia James in New York to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta, Black women are taking on threats to our democracy and holding former President Donald Trump and his ilk accountable. Black women in the Democratic Party are showing America what accountability looks like — upholding the rule of law, fighting the forces that are dismantling our freedoms and rights, and leading by example as dedicated citizens by voting and encouraging others to do the same. Full Article Here

More than a century has passed since the ratification of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing white women’s voting rights in the United States. Our foremothers – Black, Asian American, Native and Latina – joined in the chorus of activism that led to the change in the Constitution to protect the full citizenship of all women, but Jim Crow and political violence kept and still keeps our full political power at bay.

Even today, the 19th Amendment doesn’t secure women of color’s voting rights in rural Georgia, or central Texas or southern Florida. Full Article Here

The 2020 election cycle displayed the most racially diverse electorate to date, and Black women had an overwhelming and decisive impact on the outcome. If the Democrats want to maintain their slim control in Congress and continue advancing transformative progressive politics as we head into the 2022 midterms, the party has no choice but to champion Black women at every level of government, starting with the election of a Black woman senator to fill the gaping void left by Vice President Kamala Harris' ascendancy to our nation's second-highest office. Full Article Here.

Leading up to the Supreme Court's expected—yet no less devastating—ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden tweeted on May 11: "To protect the right to choose, voters need to elect more pro-choice senators this November, and return a pro-choice majority to the House." The problem is that in every roadmap described to answer the president's call to action, one critical pathway is often left off the map: women of color.

We can no longer afford to make that mistake. While some may feel helpless over losing a constitutional right, know that we don't have to change everything right now. But we must focus. Only by activating the power of women of color, especially in two states where Black women are Democratic nominees, gives us the best chance of flipping the Senate and winning our freedom. Full Article Here

I know heartbreak. I have been waiting for justice for 30 years.

This has been a season of heartbreak, and we’ve all been swirling in the uncertainty of our safety, no matter what we do. But in the hours leading up to the announcement of the jury’s verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, I felt it again—that moment when my heart breathes in the world’s toxicity and breathes out despair. Thirty years ago, in the blush of my twenties, I witnessed with the rest of the nation a bystander’s grainy video of the clenched and brutalized figure of Rodney King, unable to protect himself from the flurry of nightstick blows and kicks by police. He had been driving. He was stopped. He was attacked. We all saw the unmitigated violence of that mob. That was then. And, on Tuesday, in a flash, I found myself back in 1992 again. Full Article Here.

President Joe Biden's swift and decisive executive actions address the pain caused by the Trump administration. But more than that, the executive actions are a result of years of organizing, much led by women of color, and offer a hopeful and expansive path toward a country that serves all communities. The following are just five actions that Biden has taken, and the hidden women behind them. Full Article Here.