Tag: League of Women Voters

The Road to Montgomery

A Deep Longing This drive from Selma to Montgomery touched a deep longing I have carried for a long time … a longing for a different, more humane world. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered at a…

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Today is “Women’s INequality Day”

On Tuesday, August 23, I received this email from the League of Women’s Voters: August 26, otherwise known as Women’s Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment, which granted some women the right to vote. Yet in…

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Shifting Narratives

A couple of weeks ago I joined some members of the local chapter of the League of Women Voters for a presentation sponsored by the Diversity Office of Sinclair Community College. We listened to a conversation between Jon Stewart and…

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