Philadelphia 1997 → Las Vegas 2026
Thirty years ago, Black women gathered in Philadelphia for the Million Woman March. Three decades later, the country around us is more multiracial and multicultural than it has ever been, and that is the ground we stand on together. This commemoration is for everyone who calls it home. Let’s talk about it.
Nearing three decades on, we open the microphone — not a march, a national dialogue.
On October 25, 2026, Media Specialist C.R. (Ceci) Toliver, President & CEO of Lacquered Images, takes the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio from Las Vegas — hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio. The Committee to Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Million Woman March is a project of The Institute on Economic Apartheid, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank that promotes public dialogue, surveying affordability, safety, healthcare, childcare and housing, and how race, sex, gender, and socioeconomic status shape rights, access, and privileges.
Tap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.Know someone who should be in this conversation? Send them the site — by text, email, or however you like.
Join the conversation live on October 25.
- Call into the show
- Post your comments
- Ask your questions
- Tell your story
The lines, the comments and the questions are open to everyone. However you take part, your voice joins the record.
Listen on Hit USA RadioTap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.The drive goes live in
About the term
A note on the term. Through history, and in cultures around the world, societies have separated people by class, race, sex and status. Economic apartheid names that recurring pattern, and it belongs to no single group. Understanding how those separations have shaped all of us is where common ground begins. That is what this commemoration is for.
Why now
In 1997, a million women gathered to be counted. As we approach the 30th anniversary, we convene to be heard — in dialogue, on the record.
The cost of simply living has become its own form of exclusion. Rent, care, medicine, and safety are too often sorted along lines of race, sex, gender, and class — a pattern we call economic apartheid, one that shapes who gets to stay, thrive, and belong. Our role is to understand and document it.
This commemoration is not a backward glance, and it is not a march. It is a survey of the present, gathered from the ground up — testimony by testimony, block by block. We collect the data, as a think tank does, so that everyday Americans and the independent entities that serve them are better informed.
What we are listening for
Six pressures shaping everyday life.
Affordability
The everyday cost of living — and who is being priced out of their own communities.
Housing Costs
Rent, ownership, and displacement: who gets to stay, and who is pushed out.
Healthcare
Access, quality, and the cost of staying well across race, sex, and class.
Childcare
The care economy and the impossible math facing working families.
Safety
What it takes to feel secure — in our homes, streets, and institutions.
Rights & Access
How race, sex, gender, and status shape rights, access, and privilege.
October 25, 2026 · Live on Hit USA Radio
The Membership Drive goes live from Las Vegas.
Media Specialist C.R. (Ceci) Toliver, President & CEO of Lacquered Images launches the 30th Anniversary Membership Drive live on Hit USA Radio, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., hosted by Radical Allen & Michael Wright of Hit USA Radio. That evening the Committee appears in the audience at the Motown Extreme Review.
Tap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.
C.R. (Ceci) Toliver
President & CEO of Lacquered Images
Join the conversation live on October 25.
- Call into the show
- Post your comments
- Ask your questions
- Tell your story
The lines, the comments and the questions are open to everyone. However you take part, your voice joins the record.
Listen on Hit USA RadioTap the link, then tap Tune In Now on the Hit USA Radio page to hear the broadcast.The sign-up form is right below this section — add your name.
Become a member
Add your name as a member.
Tell us who you are and how to reach you — as an individual, or on behalf of your organization, school, group or business. Everything you share stays with the Committee, and it is what lets us reach you with the survey and what comes next.
Open Enrollment
The Membership Drive launches October 25, 2026 and stays open. Enrollment runs from October 25 through December 31, 2026. Membership materials and any store purchases will arrive in January 2027.
Looking ahead
Would you like to come together in Philadelphia in 2027 to help shape our shared statement on affordability? That is where this is headed, and members will be the ones who draft it.
The work
Help survey affordability from the ground up.
Members gather boots-on-the-ground evidence of how economic apartheid shapes residents’ rights, access, and privileges — the research that lets independent businesses, agencies, organizations, jurisdictions, individuals, and institutions make better-informed decisions of their own.
A standing coalition of those independent entities is the long-term goal we are building toward. Right now, what we need is members.
Become a memberWho we’d like to hear from
There is a place for you in this work, whatever you bring to it.
As we take the survey into our first cities, we are reaching out to people and organizations of every kind. Every one of them is welcome, and every one of them has something the record needs.
Intergenerational & multicultural organizations
Groups that bring generations and cultures together. The conversation here is stronger when more than one generation and more than one tradition is in the room — and there is a place for yours.
Schools & universities
Students, faculty, and researchers who can document what their own neighborhoods are living through and put it on the record.
Community-based organizations
Neighborhood groups, faith communities, mutual-aid networks, and local nonprofits already doing the work on the ground.
Individuals
Residents and neighbors. Your lived experience is the heart of the survey — you do not need to represent anyone but yourself.
Ready to take part? Add your name as a member — as an individual, or on behalf of your organization, school, or group.
Become a memberWhere our members are
Members are already on the map.
Every dot is a place where someone has joined — a household, a business, an organization, or a jurisdiction that put its name behind the survey. Toledo, Mesquite, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago got us started, and the count grows as new members join.
Shop & membershipWhere we’re starting
Outreach is beginning in five cities: Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Mesquite, and Toledo. This is where the work starts, and it grows from here. If you are in one of these cities, or anywhere else, there is a place for you.
- Chicago
- Baltimore
- Philadelphia
- Mesquite
- Toledo
6 member locations
Tap a dot
◆ Toledo, OH
Members have joined in Toledo, OH.
As new members join, their city is added to this map.
Carry the message
250 Years: Let’s Talk About It! — on a cap, a mug, a tote, and a tee.
Commemorative items and membership dues, gathered in one place.
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