YWCA USA staff had the opportunity to attend a talk at Turner4D about the women’s movement in the 21st century. The talk featured experts in the history and progress of the women’s movement both domestically and internationally. Celinda Lake of Lake Research and Partners covered the public perceptions of the women’s movement in the US.… Continue Reading Equal Pay Is At the Forefront of the Women’s Movement
By Donte Hilliard Director of Mission Impact, YWCA USA What would it take for us to experience just ONE Week Without Violence? What practice and policy changes would need to be implemented to make one Week Without Violence possible? We know that not all violence is physical or visible. The YWCA seeks to educate the… Continue Reading #WorkAgainstViolence: Racial Profiling and Hate Crimes
By Katie Stanton Social Media & Online Engagement Manager, YWCA USA The YWCA Week Without Violence™, held annually every third week in October, is a signature initiative created by YWCA USA nearly 20 years ago to mobilize people in communities across the United States to take action against all forms of violence, wherever it occurs. Each… Continue Reading 2014 Week Without Violence Blog Carnival
By Amy Hunter Director of Racial Justice, YWCA Metro St. Louis What’s going on in Ferguson? We have failed as a community to treat each other as kin. This is apparent in the way this incident was handled. If Mike Brown had been Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson’s son, he would still be alive. This… Continue Reading To Heal Our Communities, We Must Treat Each Other as Family
By Donte Hilliard, Director of Mission Impact, YWCA USA We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – U. S. Declaration of Independence 1776 YWCA is dedicated to… Continue Reading Uncomfortably Predictable: Race, Community and the Cycle of Violence