we began this weekend with the voting rights march in selma, alabama. commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. a short time ago, president biden laid a crowd of hundreds across the edmund pettus bridge. we re still rights leaders were brutally beaten by police on march 7th, 1965. biden was also issuing a call to action as dozens of states pass voting rights protections. salma is a reckoning. a right to vote. a right to vote, to have your vote counted. it s the threshold of democracy and liberty. with that anything is possible. without it, without that right, nothing is possible. and this fundamental right remains under assault. in january, i signed electoral reform acts to protect the will of the people and the people transferring the transfer of power. we know that we must get the vote in congress. to pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. let s get right to sell not where we find nbc news correspondent antonia hylton. good to see you, this is a
65%. that s according to new analysis from the research center. these figures have remained almost the same for the past 20 years. changing by a few cents. that the rate we re, going the pay gap could take decades and even longer to close. joining me to discuss, author and pay equity expert cynical mason. nicole, i think sometimes people hear us talk about equal pay day. it sounds like it is purely about fairness. it has real world impacts that go beyond basic fairness. why does this matter? this matters, closing the pay gap matters for women because it delays major milestones. women can lose up to $1 million over their career to the pay gap. for women of color. it could be more. it impacts our everyday lives, especially like when we think about what happened during the pandemic. women didn t have a lot of savings to pull on. it was the first to leave the workforce. the pay gap really makes a