Tag: Black Women
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Join Community Voices Heard in Following Black Women
Community Voices Heard writes: We are on the precipice of change. President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson signals confirmation of a true commitment to change and representation in our nation’s highest court. We know Black women are an extremely powerful voting bloc, and we also understand the critical role we play in our…
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Black Women Bicycling
Photo: Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, 1928. Addison Scurlock, photographer. Photographcourtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. NMAAHC historian, Marya McQuirter, uncovered this amazing story about five black women who biked cross-country in the mid-1900s while working on her PhD dissertation. Nearly 87 years ago, five friends; Marylou Jackson, Velva Jackson, Ethyl Miller, Leolya Nelson and Constance White biked from New York to Washington, DC during Easter weekend. …
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Black Women Entrepreneurs
Businesses owned by Black women are growing at six times the national average. These women-owned businesses currently generate $51.4 billion in total revenues and employ more than 375,000 people according to Donna Walker-Kuhne: https://walkercommunicationsgroup.com/ Whose blog introduced me to the film She Did That which highlights Black women entrepreneurs. HNBA’s very own LaShawn Henry recently…
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International Women’s Day Petition
Get Ready! International Women’s Day (March 8) will be here before we know it! What better way to celebrate and honor the women in your life than to make International Women’s Day a New York State holiday! The Red Carpet for Justice Coalition needs your help in the campaign to get the New York State Legislature to adopt…
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Protest at The Lucern
You likely have heard how some residents of the Upper West Side raised a significant amount of money to fund a legal campaign to force homeless New Yorkers out of the Lucern Hotel which the DHS had contracted to house homeless New Yorkers so they wouldn’t be at risk of COVID in congregant shelters Today…
