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Dear John,
This week a grand jury failed to deliver sufficient charges against the officers responsible for the murder of Breonna Taylor, a Black EMT from Louisville who was shot and killed in her apartment by police and whose name has become a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement.
We are dismayed at this miscarriage of justice and call upon legislators to take immediate action on racial justice and to heed the demands to divest from traditional policing and invest in alternatives that support communities and protect Black lives.
While we continue to mourn Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we reflect on her many contributions to the feminist movement, and the ways in which she shaped women's rights and protections during her many years on the court.
Women, especially women of color, continue to be disproportionately economically impacted by the pandemic, experiencing uprecedented unemployment rates with no economic plan for recovery on the horizon.
In a step forward for the women of Afghanistan, the Afghan president signed a historic amendment that will put women's names on official documents.
These stories are are linked below, and other important feminist news can be found here.
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