'These weren’t just open cuts but gaping, bleeding, raw wounds that a single one-day protest was never going to cauterize.'
The first time Bob Bland and Tamika Mallory met, it was like an awkward blind date. They had been set up in November 2016 because of their early involvement in the Women’s March.
The interaction between Bland and Mallory is reflective of the strange bedfellows—a chef, a yoga teacher, a film director, a poet, an herbalist—who came together to make history with the single largest one-day protest in U.S. history. “We were a random club of ladies who had never met, trying to organize this historic event in nine and a half weeks,” says Linda Sarsour, one of the original board members of the Women’s March. Many had no background in political organizing or activism.
The Women’s March movement, it could be argued, started after the march itself, when fired-up attendees wondered,The day after women took to the streets, Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List offered a four-hour course to train women how to run for office. The course sold out in nine minutes and had a 400-person wait list. Nine months later, a follow-up to the march, called the Women’s Convention, took place in Detroit, where 5,000 women gathered.
Women’s March co-chairwoman Tamika Mallory during the Women’s March"Power to the Polls" voter registration tour launch.In a November 2019 interview, Mallory acknowledges the initial language of the Women’s March should have been more inclusive to Jewish women but sticks with her original defense, saying she did not condemn Farrakhan because she does not “believe in denouncing black people in America.” The conditions for black people in the U.S.
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