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?’