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"When Women Gather" Event — League of Women Voters of Wake County

6 days ago

Save the date for this crucial online conference: When Women Gather, July 25.

Registration opens June 30. ...

www.lwvwake.org

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which granted many women in the US the right to vote. However, 1920 was not the end of the fight for suffrage for many, including women of color and Native American women. In fact, women of color were marginalized in the women’s suffrage ...

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This Author Will Help You Teach Your Kids About Race: Meet Carole Boston Weatherford

1 week ago

Earlier this month AAUW NC Young People's Literature Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford was interviewed on the State of Things. ...

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Carole Boston Weatherford wrote her first poem in first grade. She dictated it to her mother on the way home from elementary school in Baltimore.

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Title IX Needs Your Help — Write a Letter to the Editor – AAUW : Empowering Women Since 1881

2 weeks ago

Title IX, outlawing sex discrimination in education, was passed 48 years ago. It's now under attack -- at the very time when the reference to discrimination based on sex should, according to the Supreme Court, be broadened. Find out what you can do to keep this cornerstone of changes that we've seen over these years. #wewontgoback ...

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In May, the Department of Education issued a long-anticipated but extremely harmful rule designed to substantially weaken Title IX, rolling back important protections for student survivors of sexual harassment and assault. Now we need your help to stop this rule from ever going into effect.

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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

2 weeks ago

An important read central to our mission. ...

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“Pushout” looks at the criminalization of Black girls in schools.