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DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Dolores Huerta (b. 1930) is one of the few women leaders in the labor movement as an activist for farm workers. She challenged gender discrimination in the labor movement and helped found the Coalition of Labor Union Women, advocating for women workers.
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Betty Friedan (1921-2006) is called the mother of the modern women’s rights movement. Her 1963 book “The Feminine Mystique” spurred conversation about the role of women at home and at work. She advocated for gender equality in the workplace.
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Coretta Scott King (1927 – 2006) helped write sermons and organize nonviolent protests with her husband the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1962, she assembled the Women’s Strike for Peace. Her lifelong advocacy included speaking out for many rights.
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Alice Paul (1885-1977) founded the National Women’s Party and lived at its headquarters on Capitol Hill, exercising the freedoms of assembly and petition to push for national change. Paul drafted the Equal Rights Amendment proposed in 1921.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Mary Church Terrell’s (1863-1954) advocacy for racial and gender equality was based on community activism. She organized African American women, helping found the National Association of Colored Women and the group was the precursor to AAUW.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) exercised press freedom as a journalist and her freedoms of assembly and petition as an advocate for gender and racial equality. She marched in the 1913 women’s suffrage parade in Washington with the Illinois delegation.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sleep wins this contest, and he missed all the sycophantic praise heaped on him by his cadre of yes men and women.
Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was arrested for attempting to vote in the presidential election in 1872. She exercised the right to petition when she testified to Congress each year for 30 years. In 1979, Anthony became the first woman on a US coin.
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was one of the organizers of an early women’s rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, exercising freedom of assembly to organize activists. She petitioned New York & Congress for women’s rights laws.
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Human Rights Month!
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818-1894) used her freedom of expression and speech to wear and promote bloomers, pants that became a symbol of women’s rights. She exercised freedom of the press when she wrote and edited The Lily, a newspaper for and by women.
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
December is a time to honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international document stating the basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled: freedom from discrimination, the right to equality, and the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty.
UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH | December
UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS MONTH Universal Human Rights Month is an annual designation observed in December. This month and every month to follow, people all
www.nationaldaycalendar.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams (1928–2009) was a teenage civil rights activist in the struggle for equality by the indigenous peoples in Alaska. Her 1944 challenge to segregation practices helped pass Alaska's 1945 anti-discrimination law.
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Best known for her majestic landscape paintings, Cherokee artist Kay Walkingstick (b. 1935) is famous for incorporating various elements into her paintings that are viewed as being distinctly Native American themes and figures.
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Cheri Madsen (b. 1976), from the Omaha tribe, lost the use of her legs at age 3 and took up wheelchair racing in 1994, qualifying for the Paralympics in 1995. She is the first Native American female to win an Olympic exhibition bronze medal.
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Joy Harjo (b. 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright and author and the first-ever Native American Poet Laureate, 2022. Her flagship poem “American Sunrise,” tells the struggle between the contemporary world and Indigenous identity.
November 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Sharice Davids (B. 1980) was one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, alongside fellow Native American Deb Haaland. She was also the first openly LBGTQ+ Native American woman elected to Congress. She represents Kansas 2nd.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Tell Congress to reverse the sweeping cuts to SNAP by signing the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act! action.momsrising.org/sign/undo-SN...
Tell Congress: Undo the SNAP Cuts!
Tell Congress to reverse the sweeping cuts to SNAP by signing the Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act!
action.momsrising.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Award-winning artist Lauren Good Day is famous for intertwining old traditions with modern culture. She started her art career with beadwork and Tribal regalia and then expanded into quillwork, ledger drawings, rawhide parfleche and clothing.
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
States rights are just a fond memory at this point.
DOJ sues California over in-state tuition for undocumented students
The lawsuit is the sixth the agency has filed under the Trump administration over state laws waiving out-of-state tuition for eligible undocumented students.
www.highereddive.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Lily Gladstone (b. 1986), a Blackfoot, portrayed an Osage woman who survived a series of murders in Martin Scorsese’s crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon. She is the first Native American woman to win a Golden Globe for best actress.
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Michaela Goade (B. 1989) of the Tlingit and Haida tribes, recently collected the prestigious Caldecott Medal for her illustrations in the picture book, “We are Water Protectors.” She became the first Native American to receive the award.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Deb Haaland (b. 1960), a 35th Generation New Mexican and citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, made history when she was confirmed as the first Native American Cabinet secretary and head of the Interior Department by President Biden (2021-25).
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
DEI-fy TRUMP – Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!
Elouise Cobell (1945–2011), aka “Yellow Bird Woman,” was a tribal elder, rancher, banker, and activist. She was lead petitioner in a class-action suit Cobell v. Salazar, challenging the government's mismanagement of Native American trust funds
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nearly 1.6 million adults and 334,000 children in New York live with asthma. The Legislature has already done its part: S1804A/A128A passed both the Senate and Assembly. Now the bill needs Governor Hochul’s signature to become law.
Tell Governor Hochul to Sign the Inhaler Bill
citizenactionny.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM