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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This month’s post is dedicated to the memory of John Lewis, the civil rights hero who died on July 17, 2020. Few people have more powerfully changed their narrative than John Lewis.
Prior to Lewis’s death, I had already selected the topic for this month, Changing the Narrative. I selected this topic after…
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“What If There Were No George Floyd Video?” That’s the title of Nicholas Kristof’s opinion piece in The New York Times on June 6, 2020.
“There is no video to show that a black boy born today in Washington, D.C., Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi or a number of other states has a …
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This month I created a Vote by Mail project for Oregonians to help raise awareness about the ease of voting by mail in contrast to the experience of Wisconsin voters who risked their lives to vote in their April 7 primary.
First I posted an announcement on Facebook. Then I sent…
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