By Katie Stanton Social Media & Online Engagement Manager, YWCA USA This week, the news cycle has been incredibly female-focused. From politics to health, from birthdays to marriage. Read on for the latest stories about women this week, and if we missed anything important, let us know in the comments! 1. A look at trends… Continue Reading Top Five on Friday: January 17
By Colleen Butler, Racial Justice Director, and Rachel Krinsky, CEO YWCA Madison Are you growing tired of talking about race with no clear solution in sight? Despite much progress, racial inequity continues to grow, and the collective feeling of disappointment in our failure to do better as a community is palpable. We are wondering: “Why… Continue Reading Racism. Why are we still talking about it?
By Scot Nakagawa Race Files I started Race Files after screening 24 hours of political commentary programs. I screened them to test a hunch. That hunch was that if these programs were your only window on the U.S., you’d conclude that people of color are a barely present and politically insignificant part of America. I’m… Continue Reading Not Vanquished
by Debbie Stabenow U.S. Senator (D-Michigan) 92 years ago, women fought for the right to vote, and won. It was an historic moment when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. While women have made great progress since then and are participating in politics more than ever before, there’s no question that we are… Continue Reading Using the Power of Our Vote
by Marianne Schild YWCA Correspondent at DNC The last night of the Democratic National Convention, I got to spend a little time in one of the media boxes with journalist and political analyst Juan Williams. I told him that for those of us in Generation Y the development of our political consciousness stems from wanting… Continue Reading DNC 2012: Video Interview with Juan Williams