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
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 ended up teaching law and fighting for justice for women. As the second woman on the US Supreme … 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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