E. Faye Williams: Women’s equality is still a dream

YULIA NAVALNY (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Like African Americans, women have not yet achieved equality.& We’re still trying to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).& Not until the 1970’s women’s history was virtually unknown as to the contributions women continue to make to the world.& When women did get some recognition, it was for only one week. We’ve finally, like African Americans, graduated up to a month, but as much as women do to make this a better world, I submit to you women should be honored in some way every day. I doubt that many people haven’t even thought about the fact that while we have numerous men honored with a federal holiday (without deserving one), there is not a single woman with such an honor! It is time for us to enlist some of those men to support women by working for a federal holiday in the name of Rosa Parks for her bravery in sitting on that bus on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. She did it without fear of what would happen to her. Her courage was significant not just for women, but for all of us. On that day, the Whites in charge wanted to keep pushing her...