[2020 Election\Black Women]
Austin: “Black women have always been active and influential in civil rights groups and movements, but they were largely excluded from leadership roles. Now they’re not just organizing, they’re leading as well.”
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Black women
Freedom March NYC to Hold Sunday Black Women’s Vigil in Brooklyn
[Freedom March NYC\Black Women]
The vigil for Black women will be held in collaboration with: Justice for Black Girls; Black Women’s March; NAN Youth Huddle; Until Freedom; Girl Vow; Black Chef Movement; Fuel the People; and more.
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APA Report: Black Women Often Ignored by Social Justice Movements
[Black Women\Social Justice]
APA: “The underdifferentiation of Black women from Black men may help explain why Black women face similar rates of racial disparities in traffic stops and arrests, but anti-racist movements often focus on Black men in the fight against police brutality.”
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COVID-19: ON THE FRONT LINES AT HOME AND AT WORK
[COVID-19\Black Women\Women of Color]
Joycelyn Frye\Center for American Progress: “Women of color work in jobs that place them on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis… For example, nearly one-third of all nursing assistants and home health aides are Black women.”
Photo: UN
SALUTE SELMA ORGANIZATION WILL HOLD BLACK WOMEN REENACTMENT OF 1965 “BLOODY SUNDAY” MARCH
[“Bloody Sunday” Black Women’s March\Salute Selma]
We want to show the world that our voices matter and will be heard. While celebrating for the first time in history, black women leading this Historic Reenactment March Across Edmund Pettus Bridge!
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