The recent Democratic Party Women’s Leadership Forum gathered influential Democratic party insiders, rising leaders, activists, donors, and experts. WNDC was well-represented by our leadership t...
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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter: A Portrait of Leadership and Grace
Throughout her lifetime, the late Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter provided quiet but formidable leadership, creating a ro...
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The late Senator Dianne Feinstein can only be described as a force of nature. A powerhouse in American politics for more than 5 decades, she leaves a legacy of extraordinary public service. Glass ...
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A jury comprised of everyday Americans in the State of Georgia has weighed evidence and decided to charge Former President Donald Trump and others with felony racketeering and numerous conspiracy char...
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The Woman’s National Democratic Club has for 100 years put energy into advances for society and women—more women public leaders, more exposure for underrepresented authors and creators, mo...
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Dear Club members and friends,
I take up the role of President at a specific moment of opportunity for the Woman’s National Democratic Club: a moment when those of us privileged to live in an...
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“Truth over Lies, Light over Darkness”
We worked hard to elect this winning team. And we are now reaping the fruits of our labor. We are witnessing exponential change in the trajectory ...
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DC residents gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza, across from the White House, on April 20, 2021 to hear the verdict of the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis with trepidation and fear in their heart...
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As trees don fresh green leaves, bushes sprout brilliantly-hued flowers, and cherry blossoms celebrate spring in all their pink and white glory, we dare to hope. The year-long COVID winter appears to ...
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The Biden administration passed The American Rescue Plan which can only be described as a rational, essential crisis-management plan with heart! The COVID-19 pandemic has created a national emergency ...
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Why do we celebrate International Women’s Day? It started in 1908 wheb garment workers in NYC took to the street demanding shorter work hours, pay equity, and even suffrage. The following year t...
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“I learned that courage was not absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” —Nelson Mandela
We saw our elected Republican leaders cowering in the days leading up to February 1...
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“For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it.” –Amanda Gorman
We rode through four dark years towards a faint l...
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January 6, 2021 dawned on the wings of hope. The Georgia run-off elections the day before looked really promising. Reverend Raphael Warnock was declared a winner and Mr. Jon Ossoff, though a little be...
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We live in unsettling times. Weeks after election day, and even though the election was called for VP Biden, the incumbent continues to lodge legal challenges in different states. Most are dismissed o...
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The year started on a high note—with two major events on the horizon. A celebration of the women’s suffrage centennial was one. What a milestone! After almost a century of protest, women g...
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History was made this weekend. On Saturday, November 7, four fraught days after election night, Joe Biden was pronounced the president-elect, who will become the 46th president of the United States on...
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The year 2020 will long be remembered for the disasters it brought in its wake. We were anticipating a momentous year for different reasons. We were all geared up to celebrate the centennial of women&...
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“INJUSTICE IS NOT ALWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTION.
IT IS IN AN INACTION.” Marcus Aurelius
Armed citizens and trigger-happy law enforcement officers—a recipe for violence especially...
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The year 2020 dawned innocently enough. There were exciting events to plan. The presidential election was underway and America was celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage. January slid ea...
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Oh, how she fought. She fought to be taken seriously in law school, despite top grades. She fought to get a job in that bastion of male dominance—the US legal system. Kept out of law firms she e...
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The US has always prided itself on being a nation of laws. The final recourse in cases that are divisive and politically charged would be a Supreme Court that is a fair arbiter. Courts must not be sim...
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Representative John Lewis left a profound mark on everyone he encountered. The Woman’s National Democratic Club was no exception. He visited us on April 2, 2019 to present the “Democratic ...
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“A Riot is the Language of the Unheard” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The recent murder of a 46-year-old black man, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, follows the slaying of...
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Election fever in an off-off-year is unusual. But 2019 has proved that when the stakes are high, people are feeling vulnerable and the tone at the top is threatening, anything can happen. A big surge ...
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Democrats pride themselves on being fair and even-handed. The nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court last year generated a lot of discussion, even alarm, but many argued that he was not...
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We have sunk to a new low. When the current occupant of the White House debases us on a daily basis and Republicans surrounding him don’t mutter a single dissenting protest – we know then ...
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Democrats won big on November 7, 2017. Last night hope won, tolerance won, diversity won, WOMEN won, suburban and exurban voters won, Medicaid and Medicare won, Obamacare won, Progressives and Democra...
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With dozens of women leveling allegations of sexual assault and harassment against film executive Harvey Weinstein, this issue has suddenly moved center-stage. The virility of power is no longer in qu...
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This happened while you weren’t looking. The diversion of inane tweets, hurled insults, and a pre-occupied media are the perfect cover for nefarious acts.
The latest of these occurred in the ...
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And we mourn again today. We mourn the countless dead and wounded in Las Vegas, Nevada. Not at the hands of the destruction unleashed by forces of nature or the targeting by foreign militants, bu...
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September 26 is National Voter Registration Day. The strength of American democracy depends on the ability of citizens to exercise their fundamental right to vote. Instead of pursuing the myth of vote...
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The dreamers just woke up from a nightmare. Kids who grew up knowing no other country but the U.S., kids who had bought into the American dream, kids who grew up to work in nearly every company in Ame...
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Why are we protesting the events of August 12, 2017? Why does the fact that our country elected an overt white supremacist strike terror in our hearts – a man who spent years trying to prove tha...
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It is the day after the Women’s March on Washington (WMW). Two days after the Inauguration of an unpopular president whose words and actions and cabinet picks have galvanized a vast majority of ...
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The Woman’s National Democratic Club (WNDC) continues its legacy of pressing for women’s and girls’ empowerment by participating actively in the Women’s March on Washington (WM...
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This much-anticipated week is now ending. Americans went to the polls on Tuesday with the generally accepted conventional wisdom that it would be a close race with Hillary Clinton the likely winner.&n...
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