On International Women's Day, Rachel Scott Everett and Altimese Nichole point out the importance of acting to create the racial and gender equity we need more of in the world -- a movement in which Girls For A Change are at the forefront. What does leadership look...
100 Years After Women Earned the Right to Vote, Will VA Legislators Pass Equal Rights Amendment?
With a new Democratic majority in the General Assembly, Virginia could become the 38th state to ratify the ERA. Generation Z, people of color, and the LGBTQ community are leading a new generation in the decades-long fight to add the amendment to the U.S. Constitution....
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Women’s Equality
Last week, VA Ratify ERA brought their #IScream4Equality tour to VCU's campus -- in the form of delicious ice cream. VA Ratify ERA's team of volunteers handed out ice cream to Virginia Commonwealth University students on Wednesday. But this act was about more than...
The Equal Rights Amendment Takes A Small Step Toward Ratification
The ERA passed a Senate committee vote yesterday, but its path to ratification in Virginia is still long and uncertain. An 8-6 vote by a Senate committee Wednesday brought the federal Equal Rights Amendment one step closer to passing the General Assembly — which could...
On Eve of Midterms, a Push for the Equal Rights Amendment
It’s been six months since the Virginia General Assembly struck down two bills that would make the state the 38th in the country to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and local advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers haven’t slowed down in their efforts to have...
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