Today, January 20, 2021 marks the first day of the new administration of President Joseph Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Today also marks the launch of my new 4-year project, Who We Can Be. As I mentioned last month in the final post of My 1000 Small Steps, this title was…
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Who can we be as we look toward 2021?
2020 is a year that will forever live in our memories – a pandemic, a tumultuous election, horrendous wild fires, devastation of our economy, the fight for racial justice, the climate crisis, and the deaths of two inspirational leaders – John Lewis…
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The outcome of the 2016 presidential election inspired me to launch the project My 1000 Small Steps, so the results of the presidential election on November 3, 2020 would not leave me and millions of other Americans with the same feelings of disbelief, despair, and doom we experienced in 2016.
Although we didn’t…
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Election Day, November 3, 2020, is exactly two weeks from the date of this post!
Can we embrace this day with hope?
“Hope is an embrace of the unknown!” That’s the perspective of Rebecca Solnit, a feminist writer whose words seem so appropriate today. She says that though we are living through times of…
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by Kathie England
“She changed the world for American women.”
Those were the words Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for NPR, used to begin her tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the morning after her death. Few people have had greater impact on the lives of so many than Ruth…
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“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
These are the words of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
This year marks the 100th commemoration of this amendment. After a…
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