Feb 7, 2022
Minneapolis City Council President Andrea Jenkins will be our keynote speaker at noon on Thursday, July 7 at our convention hotel. Councilmember Andrea Jenkins is the first Black transgender woman to win elected office in the U.S. and was recently inducted into the...
Nov 25, 2021
The march of gun violence continues as Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges after testifying he acted in self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. The verdict in...
Nov 4, 2021
The National Association of Black and White Men together will host a celebration of life for our National Co-Chair, Scott Duty, this Saturday at 12 noon, Pacific Time, 3:00 PM Eastern. Scott is NABWMT’s longest serving Co-chair having served from 2009 to 2010 and from...
Oct 31, 2021
The Board of Directors of the National Association of Black and White Men Together have unanimously approved the appointment of Douglas Reynolds of Kansas City to serve as interim Co-Chair, filling a vacancy created by the sudden death of Scott Duty. Doug is a...
Oct 23, 2021
It is with profound sadness that The National Association of Black and White Men Together is announcing the passing of our National Co-Chair Scott Duty. Scott served as the National Co-Chair from 2009 to 2010 and then again from 2016- 2021. Scott had been involved...
Oct 11, 2021
The White House issued a proclamation declaring October 11 to be Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The proclamation celebrated the contributions that Native Americans have made to our country, while acknowledging the hardships they have endured. “The Federal...
Jan 15, 2024
Honoring Dr. King Today, January 15th, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. He is remembered as a courageous and loving leader of the civil and human rights movement whose words and wisdom empowered masses globally at a time when polarization, discrimination and...
Dec 31, 2023
Millennials and Gen Z-ers are not feeling the Biden love. Many are threatening to sit out next year’s election. Some are flirting with supporting Donald Trump — or a third-party random candidate What will it take to lock in these voters? There is a whole host of...
Dec 17, 2023
MAGA was on trial in a courtroom — its methods, its morality and the means it uses to escape the consequences of its dreadful acts. That’s because a “MAGA MAN” Rudy Giuliani was found guilty of terrible lies that election workers committed voter fraud. Giuliani’s lies...
Dec 9, 2023
There is a land mine called the Insurrection Act that Donald Trump, if re-elected president, could use to destroy our republic. This Act permits the president to deploy military troops in American communities to act as a domestic police force under his direct...
Dec 2, 2023
Many Federal Courts have Only Ever Had White Judges. We deserve a country where the administration of law reflects not just our hope for justice, but our common struggle against racial hierarchy. As we’ve said here before, President Joe Biden has made great strides to...
Nov 2, 2023
New House Speaker Johnson is a clear rebuttal to the overall liberal societal drift that’s happening in the United States. His views are far out of step with the average American and even with a significant number of Republicans. White evangelicals still have a very...
Sep 23, 2023
A group of Democratic lawmakers in the US House are calling for a hearing to investigate attacks on democracy, following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell for alleged “neglect of duty.” There are shocking trends of...
Sep 23, 2023
New Mexican voters should feel safe and supported as they cast their votes. This year, Common Cause New Mexico is ramping up efforts and beginning to train volunteers over the summer in advance of early voting. What follows could be a template for action in any state....
Sep 9, 2023
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Aug 29, 2023
We are looking at a full-on attack on our hard-fought, hard-won freedoms including our very democracy.Much of this is thwarted by Congress or the courts. The stakes of the election are stark as the GOP is trying to reverse generations of racial progress in America.We...
Jul 13, 2023
Politicians are trying to use a distorted idea of patriotism and a distorted definition of nationalism to whitewash white nationalists and white nationalism. White supremacy, white nationalism and white terror were fundamental to the creation of America. Those facts...
Jun 14, 2023
The Supreme Court, surprised us deciding that Alabama had diluted the power of Black voters by drawing a congressional voting map with a single district in which they made up a majority. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 ruling. He was...
May 21, 2023
America’s regular mass shootings leads to the hand-wringing that our politics is so polarized that there’s no way to move forward. AR-15-style rifles may be here to stay, so the most important thing we can do is modernize background checks which have some bipartisan...
Apr 16, 2023
Just last summer, and an outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — was in full swing. The virus required close, sustained contact to spread, which is why it was fanning out overwhelmingly through sex. This outbreak could become an epidemic, perhaps even a...
Apr 14, 2023
Women were instrumental in helping during the AIDS crisis, and so I am always an ally in the fight for women’s rights. Since a federal judge in Texas last week invalidated the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion drug mifepristone,...
Apr 5, 2023
NA long time members Ken and Mack were part of a nationwide team helping Wisconsin Supreme Court flip to a progressive majority. As you probably know, Judge Janet Protasiewicz won by 11% (over 200,000 votes!) and Ken and Mack’s team contributed 200 letters. This...
Mar 24, 2023
For the work to curb the spread of H.I.V. in the Nashville region, workers relied heavily on federal grant money. So they were stunned when Tennessee’s health commissioner announced earlier this year that the state would no longer accept $8.8 million in federal grant...
Feb 24, 2023
Two pieces of legislation that may soon be signed into law in North Dakota would make it possible to restrict libraries and, in some cases, to imprison librarians. As a closeted gay man, libraries were where I went to find stories that made me feel I could fit in the...
Feb 21, 2023
Anti-Black redefined as pro-equality, anti-gay as pro-family and anti-immigrant as pro-American. In Tallahassee a march happened protesting DeSantis’s crusade against everything “woke,” a concept defined as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society...
Jan 30, 2023
The killing of Tyre Nichols, a Black man in Memphis, at the hands of Black police should prompt outrage and condemnation from racial justice activists, police reform advocates and law enforcement officials. Problems of race and policing are a function of an entrenched...
Jan 16, 2023
People that are LGBTQ, poor, immigrants, people of color and so many more of us will need to stand together for the days ahead of us will be difficult. We have heard their plan, mass repeal of everything from food stamps to Obamacare to marriage equality and more. We...
Jan 15, 2023
So Trump is out, Biden was elected but the GOP won the US House. So what can White People do next considering some 6 out of 10 White folks gave Trump the Presidency? Of course, as a white man, am I ready to wage war on White Supremacy along with other white people?...
Dec 31, 2022
As we approach the end of 2022, the NABWMT Board of Directors continues to work diligently to carry out our responsibilities to our members. We are all working together to make our organization stronger. During the past three months, the Board of Directors has been...
Dec 13, 2022
The NABWMT fights homophobia and racism. and now needs to be aware that books by LGBTQ and Black are under attack. In my opinion, book banning is a violation of our First Amendment rights. When the government bans a book, it sends a clear message that certain ideas...
Dec 9, 2022
At this years NABWMT’s Convention Speakers Mack and Ken Scott Baron predicted that the Democrats would win a majority of 51-49 Senate seats.This came true as Warnock beat Walker in Georgia, giving Democrats this 51st Senate seat. We thank the team for helping to point...
Dec 1, 2022
Georgia voters have defied efforts to suppress them On Tuesday afternoon, they waited over an hour and a half to vote in Atlanta in the Georgia Senate runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker. The wait times to vote are a scandal. But,...
Nov 28, 2022
Unhoused Black gay and bisexual men are disproportionately impacted by HIV and severe cases of (MPV) Monkeypox. In 2019, Black people accounted for 13% of the U.S. population but 40% (479,300) of people with HIV. According to the CDC, Black gay and bisexual men...
Nov 13, 2022
Thank you all for the work you did on getting out the vote in the Midterms. We sent 43,400 texts20,000 Social Media Posts, 895 letters 200 postcards, worked on 10 Phone Banks, and canvassed in key districts. Your efforts allowed the Democrats to retain control of the...
Nov 9, 2022
The Red Wave is just a trickle In the latest results from the pivotal midterm elections, Democrats appeared to defy historical odds in critical midterm elections as an anticipated “red wave” did not materialize. The President’s party has averaged a loss of 28...
Nov 2, 2022
Indeed, the GOP may hold the country hostage if these so-called “entitlements” are cut , by stopping an increase in the national debt. House Republicans have made this one of their priorities! Four Republicans: Smith (MO), Arrington (TX), Carter (GA), and Smucker (PA)...
Oct 25, 2022
The word “gay” is increasingly being substituted by queer or, more broadly, L.G.B.T.Q.,which are about gender as much as sexual orientation. The word “queer” is climbing in frequency and can be used interchangeably with gay, which itself not so long ago replaced the...
Oct 12, 2022
Here in Los Angeles there has always been a wide range of ethnic and racial diversity and politics. Over the weekend a secret audio recording in which the Los Angeles City Council president, two of her colleagues and the county’s top labor official discussed race and...
Sep 30, 2022
This book is really well worth reading, not just for white folks but for anyone that wants an accurate account of US racial history. The author, Roland Martin, doesn’t hold back on the truth of this country….from the past to the present. His Daily Digital...
Sep 27, 2022
About 40 days to go for the midterms and Texas Governor is using immigration as a wedge issue. Meanwhile, few months ago, the wind appeared to be at O’Rourke’s back, as he fought to make that happen, to become the first Democratic governor of the state since Ann...
Sep 19, 2022
Why is it always on the Democrats to compromise? On Thursday, the bipartisan group of senators behind the Respect for Marriage Act, which would have enshrined federal protections for same-sex marriage, announced a delay on putting the measure to a vote, which had been...
Sep 6, 2022
Happy Labor Day and after the celebration lets return to the fight! The unofficial Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign season could push anxiety levels higher as the parties scramble to game out and shape where the electoral circus is headed. Here at the NABWMT we...
Aug 29, 2022
I was excited with the news that President Biden has announced Student Loan Relief for borrowers who need It Most Since 1980, the total cost of both four-year public and private college has nearly tripled, even after accounting for inflation. Federal support has not...
Aug 14, 2022
In March, Congress overhauled the U.S. Postal Service, which had been on the brink of insolvency for years. In June, it passed the first major gun safety legislation in nearly three decades. In July, it voted to make the most significant investment in American...
Aug 6, 2022
The NABWMT fights for people at the margins, and should do more to help women struggling after the overturning of Roe. And so, we find that Republicans have moved slowly and have struggled to speak with a unified voice on what comes next. We know what comes next,...
Jul 22, 2022
Next week the NABWMT Political Action Team and partners VOTE SAVE AMERICA kick off. Join us email: nabwmt@nabwmt.org.
Jul 20, 2022
Democrats need to find a balance between a coherent strategy by talking about the state of the Republican field as a whole, rather than singling out a few bad apples and spending millions of dollars to boost them. Republicans have unfit candidates and Democrats cannot...
Jul 17, 2022
With President Biden’s approval rating mired in the 30s and with nearly 80 percent of voters saying the country is heading in the wrong direction, all the ingredients seem to be in place for a Republican sweep in the November midterm elections. But Democrats and...
Jul 10, 2022
Pathogens have a way of shining a light on the darker facets of society. Covid-19 has certainly done that, and the monkeypox virus is doing it again. Pathogens capitalize on individual vulnerabilities, exposures, and behaviors. They also hijack structural inequities...
Jul 9, 2022
My name is Ken Scott Baron (pronoun he/him) and a cis gender gay man, I turn to the subject of Women’s rights. Three dissenting justices in Dobbs v. Jackson cited experts who say that “a ban on abortions increases maternal mortality by 21 percent.” As a former...
Jun 27, 2022
The reversal of Roe vs. Wade is likely to be the first step in a campaign to rescind legal rights and protections that the Christian right in America finds objectionable. They want to turn constitutionally protected rights into political questions at the state...
Jun 12, 2022
In 2020, there were more than 45,000 gun deaths in the United States. But there was no major push for gun safety legislation. Last year, there were nearly 700 mass shootings in America — and again, there was no major push for gun legislation. Is the disturbing truth...
Jun 6, 2022
The reversal of Roe vs. Wade is likely to be the first step in a campaign to rescind legal rights and protections that the Christian right in America finds objectionable. They want to turn constitutionally protected rights into political questions at the state level....
Jun 4, 2022
The reversal of Roe vs. Wade is likely to be the first step in a campaign to rescind legal rights and protections that the Christian right in America finds objectionable. They want to turn constitutionally protected rights into political questions at the state level....
May 23, 2022
In Buffalo this past weekend — as in El Paso, Pittsburgh, Charleston and Christchurch, New Zealand, before it — the “great replacement” conspiracy theory appears to have inspired another mass shooting. The theory says that elites are using government policy to replace...
May 17, 2022
The Supreme Court has become politicized, and this is to say at the least, disappointing and perhaps dangerous. So, a lecture by Justice Clarence Thomas, of all people, bemoaning the horrors of extreme income inequality. Does he really not realize that by giving...
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