Preserving Our Legacy: The Future of Colored Women’s Clubs in the U.S. 

​​“Reclaim the Reach: Women Building Back Community”

“We are the daughters of resilience. In the Great Depression, we fed our communities. In the Civil Rights era, we marched, taught, and healed. Today, as our elders face housing insecurity, our youth navigate broken schools, and our health outcomes lag behind, I ask: where is our fire now?

The data is clear. Marginalized communities in this country - Black, Brown, Red White, poor, rural, disable— we are diverse are being left behind, and we, the as women, must rise again. Not just to remember, but to rebuild.”​“Unity Across Communities.”

Despite the disregard of many modern administrations toward certain demographics in this country, we must remember that we have always been resilient people. Historically, Black women-built coalitions with others who shared the struggle for justice — Jewish women, Latina women, Indigenous…

Preserving Our Legacy: When Voting Rights Didn’t Protect All Women — And Why North Carolina’s Gerrymandering Still Matters Today

By Karen D. Spigner

August 26, 2020, marked the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, a milestone often celebrated as “when women won the right to vote.” But as historians Martha S. Jones and Daina Ramey Berry remind us, that narrative was never true for all women. For Black women, the right to vote was not granted in 1920 — it was promised, then systematically denied.when voting rights didnt protec…

And today, a century later, North Carolina’s newly gerrymandered districts show us that the struggle is not ancient history. It is ongoing, active, and sitting right in our back yard.

A Century Ago: The 19th Amendment Opened the Door — and States Slammed It Shut

When the 19th Amendment prohibited discrimination “on account of sex,” Black women saw only a symbolic…

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