by Jamie - Editor | Mar 10, 2021 | Better Together
Telling HERstory! by Karen Nelson On March 3, 1913, the 22 Founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. marched into history as the only African American sorority to participate in the Women’s Suffrage March after just being founded two months earlier on January...
by Jamie - Editor | Jan 13, 2021 | Better Together
Happy Birthday, Dr. King! by Karen Nelson By the winter of 1968, Dr. Martin King, Jr. and his organization were embarking on one of their boldest projects yet; a Poor People’s Campaign that would bring a multiracial coalition to the nation’s capital to demand federal...
by Jamie - Editor | Oct 10, 2020 | Better Together
Racism is a Crisis! by Karen Nelson The shooting of yet another Black man, Jacob Blake in Kenosha, was horrific and outrageous. During a peaceful protest, a vigilante killed two allies, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber. A third ally, Gaige Grosskreutz,...
by Jamie - Editor | Sep 3, 2020 | Better Together
Everybody Counts! by Karen Nelson Five years ago, I marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge with U. S. Congressman John Lewis for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Selma, Alabama. Today, amidst a lot of pain and suffering, we must do everything possible for the...
by Jamie - Editor | Aug 3, 2020 | Better Together
Her Voice. Her Vote. Our History. by Karen Nelson This month marks the 100th year of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. It’s hard to this as controversial. Yet, when the women’s suffrage movement began, that was...
