Washington, D.C. — On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) members, corporate partners and Washington D.C. dignitaries came out to the Washington Hilton for the 2019 Uncommon Height Gala. This year’s recipient of the “Crystal Stair” award was presented to none other than media icon Susan L. Taylor. The Crystal […]
Black People Out-Voted Whites & Black Women Surpassed All Voters in 2012
Washington, DC – Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) and convener of Black Women’s Roundtable issued the following statement in response to a U. S. Census Bureau report released yesterday finding that about two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 […]
Black Women Get the Job Done
Washington, DC – Over 300 Black women from ten states traveled to the US Capitol last week to urge representatives to pass policies and programs that empower Black and underserved families, especially single mothers and the working-poor. Issues the women addressed as they visited the offices of their congressional leaders included: public education, gun violence […]