If quality-of-life offenses were no longer criminalized, there would be a drastic decrease in the number of people in jail, which could ultimately shut down the jail itself.
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Why I’m Delaying Motherhood Now More Than Ever
When the decision to have children occurs in a Black family, thoughts of loss and death at the hands of the state often pervade their reality.
Driving while black can be life or death. Here are 4 rules for staying alive.
As a frequent traveler and black American who’s painfully aware of the many police-involved deaths of black drivers, I now have “The Talk” with my white and non-black minority friends before getting into their cars.
What Texas Can Do to Change Its Maternal Health Crisis
New research published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology shows that my home state of Texas’ maternal mortality rate doubled between 2010 and 2012.
Everything That’s Wrong with ‘Anything’
This weekend, it was revealed that Matt Bomer, a cisgender actor best known for roles in ‘Magic Mike’ and ‘American Horror Story,’ will be playing a transgender sex worker in the upcoming film ‘Anything,’ based on a play by Timothy McNeil.
Beyonce, Black Motherhood, and the VMAs
The presence of these women on a national stage helps challenge the racist myth of careless Black mothers.
Black Trans Liberation Tuesday Must Become an Annual Observance
This week marks one year since Black transgender activists in the United States organized Black Trans Liberation Tuesday.
Naming Black Women and Girls and the Violence Against Them
When people who are not Black women and femmes continue to ignore this type of violence, they are perpetuating the notion that Black women and femmes’ safety, wellbeing, and existence isn’t valued.
Milwaukee Officials: Black Youth, Single Mothers Are Not Responsible for Systemic Failings—You Are
Milwaukee has multiple problems: poverty, a school system that throws out Black children at high rates. But there’s another challenge.
Filmmaker Tracy Droz Tragos Centers Abortion Stories in New Documentary
The film arrives at a time when personal stories are center stage in the national conversation about abortion, including in the most recent Supreme Court decision, and rightly so.