black women’s roundtable
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When and Where Will We Finally Enter? The Black Women’s Roundtable Releases Its 2019 Report
On Friday, the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) released the findings of its sixth annual report (PDF), assessing the current status of black women in politics, employment, economics, health, education (including discipline disparity), technology (including digital discrimination), and the Impact of criminal justice, exposure to violence and immigration upon black women and girls. The 125-page report…
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More Black Women Are Realizing That the Democratic Party Is Full of Shit, New Poll Finds
The Democratic Party has experienced an 11 percent drop in support from black women, while “the percentage of black women who said neither party represents them jumped from 13 percent in 2016 to 21 percent in 2017,” according to the 2017 Power of the Sister Vote poll, conducted by the Black Women’s Roundtable, an intergenerational…
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National Action Network to Lead We Shall Not Be Moved: The March 2017 on Washington
Six days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, a coalition of civil rights groups led by the National Action Network will march to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., to remind Trump and Congress that the fight for civil rights continues. On Jan. 14 the Rev. Al Sharpton’s NAN will lead groups including the…