“The ERA Coalition supports the right to gender-affirming health care for all who want or need it,” said ERA Coalition president and CEO, Zakiya Thomas. “We cannot say we stand for feminism and equality if that feminism and equality isn’t intersectional. We stand by our trans brothers and sisters.”
Month: September 2022
Inclusive equality for the Empire State
The New York Assembly took a first step this summer toward adding an Equal Rights Amendment to the state Constitution when New York Governor Kathy Hochul called the State Legislature into an Extraordinary Session.
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2022
Wage justice is racial justice.
Wage justice is gender justice.
#BlackWomensEqualPay #BlackWomensEqualPayDay
ERA Coalition statement on Colleen Shogan’s remarks during her Senate nomination hearing
Following the Senate Homeland Security Committee nomination hearing for Colleen Shogan to the position of U.S. Archivist, the ERA Coalition / Fund for Women’s Equality President and CEO Zakiya Thomas released the following statement regarding Shogan’s remarks:
It’s National Black Voter Day!
National Black Voter Day is a grassroots effort to engage Black communities through education, canvassing, organizing, door-to-door leaf footing, power building, social and mainstream media to register, educate, and mobilize people to vote and vote continuously.
Honoring National HBCU Week
In recognition of this week being National Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) Week, it is important to discuss the history behind such instrumental institutions.
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