Today is African American Women’s Equal Pay Day — the estimated point in the year that black women, on average, have to work to make what the average man was paid the previous year.
Eight years ago, then-Senator Barack Obama told the crowd at the Iowa Democratic Party Jefferson-Jackson dinner that he was running for president “to protect the American worker. To fight for the American worker…. To give our children and grandchildren the same chances somebody…
Twenty years ago, representatives from 189 nations gathered in Beijing, China, for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. I was a member of the United States delegation, alongside First Lady Hillary Clinton.
