PART ONE

GUEST: Kamala Lopez and ERA-6 arrestee Adam Eidinger with an update on the prosecution of "The ERA-6" activists still facing charges for staging a large-scale protest action at the National Archives, on January 10, which included the hanging of a 40-foot banner asking President Biden whether his legacy would be that of a "Hero or Zero" in terms of women's rights and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). 

Kamala Lopez is the founder and director of EQUAL MEANS EQUAL, a group that has been a leader in the fight for the ERA for years--and which is associated with that action. (See below for Kamala's bio)

We'll discuss the campaign for the ERA-6, prospects for winning the ERA in spite of a hostile government--and why women need one.

PART TWO

Excerpts from the African American Policy Forum entitled: "In the Bullseye of Backlash: Anti-Wokeness and the Attack on Black Women"

We'll hear Dr. Kimberly Crenshaw, Beverly Guy Sheftall, Janel George and Evelyn Hammand discussing how and why Black women have been under special attack as part of the right wing campaign against "DEI" (Affirmative Action a few times removed), the history of Black Feminism and what attacks on such diverse figures as Lani Guinier, Anita Hill and Claudine Gay have in common.

BIO's OF GUESTS

KAMALA LOPEZ

Actress, filmmaker, activist & President of Heroica Films, launched the movement and documentary film both named: Equal Means Equal, to educate Americans about the importance of equal rights under federal law for women and complete the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Non-stop organizer for the ERA.

KIMBERLY WILLIAMS CRENSHAW

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.

Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectionality, also known as intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination.

Her work further expands to include intersectional feminism, which= examines the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that women   face due to their ethnicity, sexuality, and economic background.

She is a founder and Director of the African American Policy Forum.

JANEL GEORGE

Associate Professor of Laraw, at Georgetown Law School; a Founding Director of the Racial Law and Policy Clinics. She is also a founding member of the Critical Race Theory Summer School.

BEVERLY GUY SHEFTALL

Anna Julia Cooper Professor of English and Women's Studies at Spelman College; Foundin Director of Women's Research and Resources at Spelman.

EVELYN HAMMOND

Barbara Gutman Rosenkranz Professor of History of Science and Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Social and Behavioral Studies at Harvard College.

This program will also contain a Feminist News Roundup and topical music.