Though only 21, Dylann Roof has an old soul — that of a 19th-century…
Author: Cynthia Greenlee
Fighting for Access and Justice: A Q&A With the Incoming Executive Director of the National Network of Abortion Funds
The 37-year-old Chicago native recently chatted with RH Reality Check about her work to build a broad human rights movement that lives up to its inclusive values, her unconventional professional trajectory, and the people who inspired and stoked her activism.
It’s Not Helpful to Tell Indiana Residents to ‘Just Move to a Blue State’
The brouhaha over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act has turned the spotlight on two different kinds of red-state hate: first, the discriminatory policymaking that is an obvious specialty of red states, and, second, progressives’ tendency to show disdain for more conservative states. Sometimes, I wonder which is worse.
Percy Sutton’s 1966 Abortion Rights Bill: Groundbreaking, But Often Unremembered
By the time of his death in 2009, New York’s Percy Sutton had long earned his reputation as a pioneer and power broker.
Beyond the Coat Hanger: What’s Next for Abortion Rights Iconography?
For many in the reproductive rights movement, the coat hanger is more than a commonplace closet item. Activists use it to memorialize those girls and women who turned to unsafe abortions out of desperation when abortion was illegal. It transforms into shorthand for “Never again.”
Chapel Hill Murders Are About More Than a Parking Dispute
Perhaps this is the moment that many of my Chapel Hill friends are having: the loss of an illusory community that didn’t exist for many of us.
Letters to Justice Blackmun Offer Glimpse of Public’s Post-‘Roe’ Reactions
Nine months after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, a woman named Katherine T. wrote Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the case’s majority opinion, a rambling letter detailing her illegal abortion and expressing her gratitude.
Why Don’t More People Care About Black Maternal Deaths?
With the right care, it’s very possible Gibson and her infant would have survived.
Riots and Research: What a 1968 Report on Urban Unrest Has to Do With Ferguson
“What happened?” “Why did it happen?” “What can be done to prevent it from happening again?”
And She Still Wrote: Remembering Maya Angelou
Dr. Maya Angelou’s life could not be contained by a single autobiography.