WOMEN'S WORK.

• Author: Bari, Kisha
• Position: Brief article

Shortly after the election of Donald Trump as President in November 2016, a coalition of women came together to organize the Women's March in Washington, D.C. That action on January 21, 2017, was probably the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, as five million people took to the streets in more than 300 cities around the world.

But, under the leadership of veteran activists and women of color, what started with outrage over the 2016 election has transformed into a growing and strategic organization that uses people power to fight the Trump Administration's harmful agenda.

On January 19, the third annual Women's March saw more than 65,000 people march in Washington, D.C, along with 319 sister marches held in cities across the country. The organizers also used this march to launch the organization's 2019 Steering...