Why do we celebrate International Women’s Day? It started in 1908 when garment workers in NYC took to the street demanding shorter work hours, pay equity, and even suffrage. The following year their mantle was picked up by the Socialist party. By 1910 the movement went global. More than 100 women from 17 countries agreed … Read more
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 behind Senator Perdue, was poised to win once the balance of the votes from primarily Blue counties were called. The Democrats were … Read more
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 January 20, 2021. Kamala Harris, now vice president-elect, will be the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to ascend … Read more
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’s suffrage. A presidential election year is always exciting with the promise of change and this year in particular we hoped … Read more
“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 when racism is added to this vitriolic mix. A frontline worker is shot five times in her own apartment by cops during a supposed drug heist. They break down her front … Read more
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 simple extensions of the political branches of the Government, averred Chief Justice Roberts in 2018. Some of the … Read more
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 Woman of the Year Award” to Representative Maxine Waters of California. A civil rights leader, a preacher of nonviolence, and a US Representative from Georgia, … Read more
“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 a black man, Ahmaud Arbery, while jogging in Georgia; of Breonna Taylor, an EMT worker who was shot to death by police in her … Read more
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