The Black Women’s Roundtable wants automatic spending and tax changes averted as soon as possible. They would be too punishing for families already living at the edge of survival.
The late Dorothy I. Height insisted on African American women speaking their own minds. This Memorial Day, Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich pays tribute to a friend and mentor who leaves a bright torch for others to carry on.
Michelle Obama’s speech earlier this week was so good Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich could taste it. But the media’s wide-eyed surprise dismayed her with its suggestion than such an accomplishment by a black woman should be considered rare.
Tabloid entertainment media is making young female celebrities with drug problems seem chic. Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich says this trivializes the depth of their actual addiction and the strung-out reality of everyday women lost in our streets.
Instead of Independence Day fireworks, Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich would prefer that we all blast off more loudly about the toll that HIV-AIDS is taking on black women. Today’s historic HIV-AIDS meeting in Kenya may help.
When C. DeLores Tucker, a spirited and well-known civil rights activist, died Oct. 12 at age 78, Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich thought it was finally time to pay tribute to a woman who dodged public accolades throughout her remarkable career.
Prominent women’s organizations are endorsing Carol Moseley Braun for president. But the campaign of the former senator and former ambassador is still not being taken seriously by the dominant media and prominent Democrats.
The ultimate good ol’ boys may be leaving the U.S. Senate, but Strom Thurmond is backing Dennis Shedd for a seat on the circuit court, part of a strategy to leave a legacy hostile to civil rights and gender equity.
A recent study by the National Council of Negro Women and the Fannie Mae Foundation finds black women are much further along the road to economic power. But obstacles remain.
A U.S. civil rights leader returning from the U.N. racism conference in South Africa argues that its participants, including key women, devised a path that could diminish terrorism: agreeing to discuss and address racism.
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