Alabama Coalition on Black Civic Participation

Essence Fest 2024

Are you ready? Join Alabama Black Youth Vote for a very interesting presidential debate watch party Thursday

This story is from 2020, however we must remain focus and continue with the same energy. Vote in EVERY ELECTION. And participate in EVERY CENSUS. https://buff.ly/3eZNFXX

Black women have long been at the forefront of the right to vote. Today, 100 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment and 55 years after the Voting Rights Act, their fight...

The Ongoing Fight | American Experience | PBS Before women's suffrage, Black women led the fight for voting rights—and still do today.

Exercising your right to vote is crucial to shaping the future. Engaging in electoral processes can bring about the changes you want to see in society, governance, education, healthcare, and other important areas. Your vote can influence key decisions that directly impact your daily life.

Exercising your right to vote is crucial to shaping the future. Engaging in electoral processes can bring about the changes you want to see in society, governance, education, healthcare, and other important areas. Your vote can influence key decisions that directly impact your daily life. Remember, every vote matters in building the community you belong to. Make your voice heard through voting and contribute to creating a positive impact on the world.

Exercising your privilege to cast a ballot holds significant importance as it shapes the trajectory of your future. It is vital to engage in electoral processes to instigate the transformations you desire to witness in your society, governance, educational institutions, healthcare facilities, and other crucial establishments. Your vote has the power to sway pivotal board decisions and appointments that directly impact your daily life. Remember, each vote plays a role in molding the community you are a part of. Ensure to let your voice be heard through voting and contribute to making a positive impact on the world around you.

“It ain’t who you sleep with. It is who you stand with when you are woke.“ -regarding discriminating against people based on their s*xuality.
Michael Eric Dyson sermon from “
-The United of Amnesia

If you live in Birmingham, and have not participated in this survey, there’s still time!

Happy Nurses Week to all of the Nurses. Jefferson County, Al District Two Commissioner Sheila Tyson Alabama Black Women's Roundtable

HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER WOMEN'S EQUAL PAY DAY
Although many women, including women of color, immigrants, and poor and working-class women, have worked outside the house or been paid for their labor since the country’s founding, the realm of paid employment has traditionally lived in the American psyche as part of men’s public sphere. Women were assumed to exist in the “private” realm, performing unpaid work, until WWII, when record numbers of women entered the workforce.

Recognizing that women had largely replaced men in the war labor industry, the National War Labor Board urged industry leaders to make “adjustments that [would] equalize wage or salary rates paid to females with rates paid to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on the same or similar operation” in 1942.

The National Committee on Pay Parity, a collaboration of women’s and civil rights organizations, labor unions, professional associations, and people seeking to abolish s*x and race-based wage discrimination and achieve pay equity, first commemorated the symbolic day in 1996.

In the United States, the battle over equal pay has raged for generations. Several laws have been established to promote the concept of equal pay for men and women.

John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963, and it was heralded as a “great step forward” for women in the workplace. Discrimination based on race, origin, color, religion, or s*x was illegal in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Pregnant employees were protected by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 permitted parents of either gender to take time off. President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored some anti-discrimination safeguards that had been removed in a 2007 Supreme Court judgment and provided corporations with incentives to make their payrolls more equitable.

Very interesting.

US supreme court appears divided after hearing arguments on emergency abortion care — Guardian US Federal Emtala law has become focal point in heated debate over emergency abortions in states that ban procedure

Congratulations to Destination Birmingham on A Masterclass by Rick Ross and the Symphonic Orchestra.
A fantastic experience. You have to understand that the Conductor for this event was Birmingham’s very own Grammy award winning Dave Crenshaw. Rick Ross was so impressed with Dave’s ability and talents, he said to the audience….that he was adopting that orchestra and wherever he is called to perform on a grand level, they are coming too. He didn’t care if it was in another country. And you know what…. I believed Rick Ross when he said it.

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Alabama Black Women's Roundtable National Action Network- Birmingham Chapter

Every child needs and deserves healthy meals throughout the year. But in recent years, 94% of Alabama’s children who received free or reduced-price school meals during the school year did not have access to them over the summer.

The Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) program was built off more than a decade of successful pilot programs, and it had a proven track record of reducing food insecurity and supporting healthy diets for children. Congress recently replaced P-EBT with a new Summer EBT program, but Alabama has not yet provided the required state match for the new program. We need legislators to support providing $15 million for the Summer EBT food program to help prevent children from going hungry over the summer next year.

Legislators are actively working on the fiscal year 2025 budgets, so now is an important time to elevate Summer EBT as a budget priority. Email your senator and let them know that Alabama’s children need Summer EBT!

Food insecurity among children in Alabama is disproportionately high, with one in four children living in food-insecure households. This is especially common in households of color, who often face food apartheid, the term for systemic and infrastructural limits to food access based on demographic factors such as race, class, ethnicity and gender.

Alabama needs to seize this opportunity to keep kids fed. We urge you to contact your senator today and ask them to fund Summer EBT for 2025.

Below are the districts and contacts for Senator's we are focusing on as the budget is being considered in the Finance & Taxation, Education Committee this week on Wednesday April 24th @ 10 AM:
Senator Arthur Orr,( District 03-Limestone, Madison, and Morgan), (334)-261- 0758
Senator Gerald Allen, (District 21- Pickens and Tuscaloosa), (334)-261-0889
Senator Greg Albritton, ( District 22- Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile, and Washington), (334)-261- 0843
Senator J.T. 'Jabo' Waggoner, (District 16-Jefferson and Shelby), (334)-261-0892

PA Unity ’24 Power of the Ballot Panel Discussion tonight 6 PM-7:30 PM at the University of Pittsburgh Community Engagement Center (CEC) in Homewood, 622 N. Homewood Avenue, Pittsburgh Pa. 15208. WE THE PEOPLE strategy session.

SHEILA,

We are reaching out to remind you about the incredible opportunity available for HBCU students through the Bob Marley: One Love Social Impact Scholarship in partnership with Paramount Pictures!

This scholarship is specifically tailored to support rising sophomore, junior, and senior students pursuing degrees in community organizing, nonprofit management, public policy, or social justice-related programs at select HBCUs.

Here are the key details of the scholarship:

Number of Scholarships: 10 scholarships available

Award Amount: $5,000

Eligible Academic Institutions: Bowie State University, Clark Atlanta, Dillard University, Florida A&M University, Hampton University, Morehouse College, Morgan State University, Spelman College, Texas Southern University, and Xavier University of Louisiana.

Eligibility Requirements: U.S. citizen or permanent resident, Black or African American identification, minimum 2.5 GPA, current classification as a freshman, sophomore, or junior, pursuing a degree in specified majors.

Application Deadline: April 30, 2024, by 11:59 pm ET

Your support in spreading the word about this opportunity among your networks is highly appreciated. Together, we can empower deserving HBCU students to achieve their academic and social impact goals.

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