Back to the Future: The ERA
The Equal Rights Amendment known as ERA — yes that ERA — is back.
The House passed a bill last week that would extend the deadline to ratify the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex.
But is this five-decade-old amendment up to this moment? A moment that includes #MeToo, rising hate crimes against women of color and a pandemic that has battered women more than men? We turn to professor Julie Suk, who published “We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment,” to discuss.
Show Notes:
- What the pandemic taught America about racial injustice
- A window into the life and work of Stacey E. Plaskett
- Seeking environmental justice: the impact of climate change on communities of color
- What’s next on immigration, an issue that’s personal, political — and complicated
- ‘If racism is a lie, how has it been sustained, institutionalized and structured in America?’
